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out by Sci.ATER and Fraed {/f>is, 1918, pp. 471-474). The typical 

 bird ranges apparently froni Sénégal to N. Angola through Nige- 

 ria, Cameroon, the French and Belgian Congo to Northern Kho- 

 desia. 



Six races are recognised (including the typical bird) bv Sclater 

 and Pr.\î;d. 



Fa.mii.v NECTARINIIDAE (p. 325). 



Anabathmis reichenbachi. 



Nectariiiia reichcnbacliii Harti,., Orn. W. Afr., 1857, p. 50. — 

 Tvpe localitv : Gaboon. 



Professor Neumann infornis me that there is a spécimen of 

 Reichenbach's Snnbird in the Stuttgart Muséum coUected bv 

 Manx at Lagos. 



liante. — Represented in the British Muséum collection from 

 Gold Coast, Cameroon, Gaboon and Landana, just north of the 

 mouth of the Congo riv^er. It also occurs in the W. Belgian Congo 

 and Southern Nigeria from which districts \ve hâve no spécimens. 



Family LANIIDAE (p. 349). 



Laniarius barbarus barbarus. 



Laniiis barhariis Linn., Syst. Nat., 1766, p. 137. — Tvpe localitv : 

 Sénégal. 



The Yellow-crowned Black and Red Bush Shrike or Gonolek 

 as it is sometimes called, is now included from Southern Nigeria 

 on the authoritv of Professor Neumaxk who writes me that there 

 is a spécimen from Lagos in the Stiittgart Muséum collected by 

 Mann. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve e.xamples in the British Muséum 

 from Shonga Fokhes), Ilorin (Brvaxt), Lokoja (Christv) and 

 from Amageddi and Yo on Lake Chad (Boyd Alkxanim;r). 



