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may need separating, extends from the Gambia to S. Nigeria. 

 It is rather darker on the iipper parts and bas the vmder-parts more 

 brownish-olive without the yellow centre to the belly. 



I do not consider a name shoned be bestowed on this bird until 

 some ornithologist jnono^^raphs the genus. In mv opinion it is 

 almost impossible to form a true impression of the vaine of a race 

 when dealing with two or three species onlv, in what is perhaps the 

 most difficult of ail African gênera. 



The three forms are represented in the National Collection from 

 the following localities : 



1. — Andropadus virens virens. 



Range. — Cameroon, Gaboon (terra typica), Fernando Po, 

 N. Angola, N. Belgian Congo, Uganda. 



2. — Andropadus virens subsp. 



Range. — Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, 

 Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, French Equotorial 

 Africa. 



3. — Andropadus virens zombensis. 



Andropadus zombensis Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 10 : Zomba. 



Distinguished from the above by its larger size, paler and 

 greener coloration. 



Range. — Nvasaland, S. Belgian Congo, Rhodesia. 



Oberholser in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXII, 1900, p. 15, has 

 characterised a new Genus Eurillas for the réception of this 

 species. I am however inclined to follow Shelley and Reiche- 

 now until such a time as the entire groups mav be monographed. 

 I do not however dispute that Oberholser's genus mav prove 

 acceptable. 



At first sight it is not by anv means easy to distinguish A. virens 



