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(Fairly plentiful and very fond of banana trees, usuallv to be seen 

 perched on the top of one. — W. P. L.) 



Family TIMELIIDAE. 



Phyllanthus haynesi. 



Crateropiis ^(^zyw^^z' Sharpe, Ibis, 1871, p. 415. — Type locality : 

 Accra, Gold Coast. 



Mr LowE procured a single female example of the rare 

 Havnes' Babbling Thrush at Iju water works near Lagos on the 

 I2th February 1920. It is, I beleive, the first occasion that it has 

 been shot in Nigeria. 



We hâve in the British Muséum a number of birds from the 

 Gold Coast where it has been obtained at Wassaw, Accra, Fantee 

 and Denkera. Reichenow records it (Vôg. Afr., III, p. 668), from 

 Togoland (Bismarckburg) also from Cameroon (Abonando in 

 Bangwa) and from the Ubanghi river. Reichenow could hardly 

 hâve mistaken a spécimen of P. boli iidorffî Shakve or P. czarnikowi 

 O.-Grant for P. haynesi so that we may reasonably take this 

 distribution as correct. 



There would be everv excuse for considering P. atripennis^ 

 P. haynesi, P. bohtidorffi and P. czarnikowi (if thèse last two 

 mentioned are really distinct) ail as races of P. atripennis but 

 considering how little we know of the distribution of the Belgian 

 Congo birds and how very distinct P . atripennis, P. haynesi and 

 P. hohndorffi are from one another, though obviouslv comprising 

 one little group in themselves, I think it is best to treat ail as 

 separate species and draw attention to their affinities by including 

 them as foUows : 



I. — Phyllanthus atripennis. 



Crateropiis atripennis Swains, Birds West Afr., 1837, p. 278 : 

 Western Africa. 



Range. — Sénégal, Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Libéria (Cape 

 Palmas). 



