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is on the authority of eminent Ornithologists as Cabanis 

 and Shelley (see Sharpe , Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. XIII, 

 p. 227) that I consider my entirely black birds to be a 

 variety of C. ardens, a variety which has been named Vi- 

 dua concolor by Cassin. They have been killed in the cane- 

 jungles near Juring during the months of September, Oc- 

 tober and November. 



72. Penthetriopsis macrura (Gm.). 



Penthetria macroura, Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 197. 

 Colmspasser macrourus , Butt. N. L. M.1886, p. 259; 1881, p. 91. 

 Coliopasser macrurus , Butt. N. L. M. 1889, p. 134. 

 Numerous specimens , found in the same reed-jungles as 

 the preceding species. 



73. Spermestes cucuUata , Swains. 



74. Nigrita emiliae , Sharpe. 



75. » hicolor (Hartl.). 



76. Corythaix macrorhynchus , Fras. 

 *77. » bufoni (Vieill.). 

 *78. Scliizorrhis africana (Lath.). 



79. Berenicornis leucolopha , Sharpe. 



80. Tockus semifasciatus (Temm.). 



81. Pogonorhynchus hirsutus (Swains.). 



82. Trachyphonus gojfini (Schleg.). 



83. Mesopicas pyrrhogaster (Malh.). 



84. Centropus leucogaster (Leach) '). 



Centropus francisd, Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 222; 1886, p. 264; 

 1888, p. 96; 1889, p. 135. 



85. Centropus senegalensis (L.). 



86. Ceuthmochares aeneus (Vieill.). 



87. Coccystes cafer (Licht.). 



88. Chrysococcyx klaasi (Steph.). 



89. Treron calva (Temm.). 



90. Turtur semitorquatus (Rüpp.). 



91. Peristera tympanistria (Temm.). 



92. Vanellus inornatus, Swains. 



1) See Hargitt, Cat. Birds Br. Mua. Vol. XIX, p. 358. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XIV. 



