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Cossypha vert icalis, 



Cossypha verticalis , Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W. Afr. (1848) p. 

 23; id. Orn. W. Afr. p. 77; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. 

 Mus. VII. p. 45. 



Hab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the river Niger; 

 East Africa. 



A male specimen , caugbt in a snare , in brushwood 

 along a swamp. 



Iris brown , bill black , feet grayish brown. 



Ale the poliocephala. 



Trichophorus poliocephalus (Temm.), Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. 

 p. 85. 



Alethe castanonota , Sharpe , Cat. Afr. Birds , p. 20 ; id. 

 Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII. p. 59 , pi. 2. 



Hab. West Africa , from Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast. 



One specimen (adult male) from Sofore Place , St. Paul's 

 River. 



Met with in thickets and surrounding open places , keep- 

 ing always close to the ground. 



Iris brown , bill black , feet pale flesh-color. 



There can be no doubt that Mr. Sharpe's Alethe castano- 

 nota is identical with Temmiuck's Criniger poliocephalus in 

 the Leyden Museum , first mentioned by Bonaparte (Consp. 

 I. p. 262) and more amply described , as an aberrant 

 form of Trichophorus , by Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. W. Afr. p. 

 85). A thorough comparison with Mr. Sharpe's description 

 and plate shows not the least difference with our four types 

 from the Gold Coast and Fernando Po , the black chin , 

 mentioned by Mr. Sharpe in his original diagnosis, being 

 only overlooked in the short descriptions of Bonaparte and 

 Dr. Hartlaub. 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museuixi, Vol. "VII. 



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