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Iju water werks near Lagos. The species had already been obtained 

 in Southern Nigeria by Robin at Abeokuta. 



There do not appear to be any races of this bird. 



Range. — In the British Muséum it is represented from the 

 foUowing localities : Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, Southern 

 Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, Northern Angola, North Belgian 

 Coneo. 



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(A verv common species inhabiting forest and open bush- 

 country. A pair were nesting near the bungalow on January I2th. — 

 W. P. L.) 



Phyllastrephus (species uncertain). 



The Rnlbul shot bv Mr Lowe at Iju (n° 373) on February 

 I2th 1920, sex indéterminable, has proved quite impossible to 

 name. 



I beleive the bird will prove to be new. It is at anyrate new to 

 the British Muséum Collection. The upper-parts agrée fairly well 

 in coloration with Phyllastrephus poensis h\s.y^. It has the reddish 

 tail of that species, and the olive-brown coloration of the head and 

 back is similar. But it does not agrée with that species on the 

 under-parts which are much darker, the throat is greyish-olive and 

 the breast bellv and tlanks uniform brownish-olive, the feathers of 

 the throat hâve conspicuous white shafts otherwise the underside 

 resembles more that of Andropadiis gracilirostris. The under 

 wing-coverts and quill-lining are not like A. gracilirostris and in 

 this respect the bird resembles P. poensis. The bill is heavier than 

 in P. poensis, resembling that oi A. gracilirostris. 



The measurements of this bird which was shot in dense 

 bush. are as follows : Bill, 17; wing, 85; tail, 83,5; tarsus, 

 24 mm. 



The soft-parts are : Bill, upper-mandible dark-horn, lower 

 whitish ; feet, plumbeous. 



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