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tely as so often happens, the collector did not realise thev were 

 new, otherwise a much larger séries could hâve been obtained, as 

 he remarks that they were common. I hâve already given a full 

 description of this bird in mv original description and shown how 

 it diflfers from T. nigriceps. It can be distinguished at once from 

 ail the bright chestnut-breasted Paradise Flvcatchers bv the 

 distinct colouring of the back. 



Range. — Apparently confined to Southern Nigeria. 



(A common bird found above the dense foliage trees. — 

 W. P. L.) 



Cichlomyia lugens. 



Butalis liigens Hartlaub., P. Z. S., 1860, p. iio. — Tvpe loca- 

 lity : Bembe, Angola. 



The single spécimen of Hx\rtlaub's Flvcatcher obtained by 

 Mr LowE on the Ogun river, near Lagos, S. Nigeria, on the 

 27th December 19 19 is a very remarkable little bird. It agrées 

 exactly with the tvpe of Alseonax (Muscicapa) melanoptera in 

 having a shorter tail and a distinctly smaller bill than typical 

 C. l. lugens. The type of ^4. melanoptera was described by Jackson 

 from Toro in Uganda and has since been united with C. htgens as 

 first pointed out by Neave (Ibis, 1910, p. 125). Other spécimens 

 from S. Nigeria in the British Muséum are two from Obutong 

 (P. A. Talbot) and one from Lagos (Ussher); ail three of thèse 

 hâve the large bill of the typical bird. Had this not been the case 

 I should hâve been inclined to keep up melanoptera as a distinct 

 race, 



The variation in the size of the bill is remarkable and I am at a 

 loss to explain it. 



Range. — The range of C. lugens is as follows (from spéci- 

 mens in the British Muséum) : Gold Coast, N. and S. Nigeria, 



