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One specimen , collected at Buluma (Fisherman Lake). 

 This specimen , with a very worn , pale plumage , was shot 

 in a glade near the Fisherman Lake, the 3rd of January. 



Dicrurus atripennis. 



Dicrurus atripennis^ Swains. Birds W. Afr. L p. 256; — 

 Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 101; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. 

 Mus. in. p. 232. 



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



Collected near Monrovia. 



This species seems to be rarer than its congener D. mo- 

 destus , as we had only once the chance to obtain it. It 

 was shot in young forest behind Monrovia. 



Iris reddish brown, bill and feet black. 



Dicrurjis modestus. 



Dicrurus modestus^ Hartl. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1849, 

 p. 495; id. Orn. W. Afr. p. 101; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. 

 Mus. III. p. 232. 



Dicrurus coracinus , Verr. Rev. et Mag, de Zool. 1851 , 

 p. 311; — Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 548. 



Dicrurus atripennis, Rchw. (nee Swains.), J. f. 0.1875, 

 p. 26. 



Hab. West Africa, from Liberia to Angola. 



Collected at Buluma and near Caba on the banks of 

 the Marfa River. Agreeing perfectly well with the large 

 series of D. modestus resp. coracinus in the Leyden Museum, 

 which Mr. Sharpe is very right in uniting under the name 

 of D. modestus. 



This species is found in clearings and plains , interrupted 

 by boscage. 



Iris red, bill and feet black. 



Melaenornis edolioides. 

 Melasoma edolioides, Swains. Birds W. Afr. I. p. 257, pi. 29. 



Notes from. th.e Leyden ]VIu.seu.in , Vol. "VII. 



