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From Northern Nigeria we hâve spécimens obtained by Boyd 

 Alexander at Dawka near Keffi, at Gargindie and at Conencum. 



Range. — This species ranges from Portuguese Guinea to 

 Southern Nigeria It is represented in the British Muséum from 

 Sierra Leone, Libéria, the Gold Coast, Southern and Northern 

 Nigeria. 



(Thèse little Swallovvs occur everywhere and are frequently 

 found in familv parties. — W. P. L.) 



Family MUSCICAPIDAE. 



Bradyornis murinus modestus, 



Bradyornis modesta Shelley, Ibis, 1873, p. 140. — Type loca- 

 lity : Abokobi-Kintampo, Gold Coast. 



A single spécimen of the vVest African Robin-Shrike was shot 

 by Mr Lowe at Iju. Kemp had already obtained it at Agoulerie, 

 and Lowell on the Anambara river in Southern Nigeria. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve a bird from Loko (W. A. For- 

 BEs) and a number of spécimens coUected by Boyd Alexander at 

 the Semankar river, Tarkum, Bina, Kima and the Gongola river, 

 Badiko and Lerewe, while the same collector shot a small séries 

 in French Equatorial Africa. 



It is represented in the British Muséum, from Portuguese 

 Guinea, the Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, and 

 French Equatorial Africa. 



The genus Bradyornis was reviewed at length bv Ogilvie-Grant 

 in the Ibis, 1913, pp. 632-637, where a very useful list was given 

 of ail the spécimens in the Natural History Muséum with their 

 localities and collectors names, together with a key to the species 

 and subspecies. 



The extension of the range of B. >n. inudestus to Portuguese 

 Guinea since this paper was written, is of considérable interest, 

 showing that the bird extends up the West Coast probably as far 



