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3- — Erannornis longicauda loandae. 



Elminia longicauda loandae Sclater and Praed, Ibis, 1918, 

 p. 712 : N'Dalla Tando. 



Distribution. — North Angola. 



Distiuguishing characters. — Blue of the upper and underparts 

 much brighter, and the vvhite of the abdomen more sharply defined. 



Trochocercus nitens nitens. 



Trochocercus nitens Cassin. Pr. Ac. Nat. Se. Philad., 1859, p. t;o. 

 — Type locality : Camma R. 



Mr LowE obtained two spécimens of Cassin's Flycatcher from 

 Iju which prove to belong to the typical species and not to the 

 Northern race. 



The races of this bird are : 



1. — Trochocercus nitens nitens. 

 Cf. supra. 



Range. — S. Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, N. Belgian Congo, 

 N. Angola, Uganda. 



2. — Trochocercus nitens reichenowi. 

 Trochocercus reichenowi ^u.ar¥^, Ibis, 1904, p. 630 : Fantee. 



Range. — Togoland, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone. 



Distinguishing characters. — Under-surface darker grey, more 

 uniform throiighout. 



(Another very difficult bird to obtain living in the dense bnsh. 

 Thèse two birds were paired and about to nest. The bird has a 

 curions habit of darting round and round in the bush with tail 

 spread, making a curious rattling sound. — W. P. L.) 



