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Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE. 



Campephaga phoenicea. 



Ampelis phoenicea Lath., Ind. Orn., I, 1790, p. 367. — Type 

 locality : « Africa ». 



Two examples of the Cuckoo-Shrike were shot bv Mr Lowe at 

 Iju water works in Southern Nigeria. From Northern Nigeria we 

 hâve spécimens from Shonga (Forbes), Katab (B. Alexander) 

 and Ilorin (Bryant). 



Range. This species as a wtde range, it is represented in 

 the British Muséum from : 



West Africa : Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, 

 Northern and Southern Nigeria. 



East Africa : Sudan, Abvssinia, Uganda, E. Belgian Congo. 



Observation. — The form which has the elbow-patch vellow 

 instead of red known as Campepliaga xanthornoides, but which 

 is in reality but a varietv of C. phoenicea (as mav be seen bv a 

 spécimen in the Muséum from Senate, Abvssinia, which has the 

 patch half red and half yellow) is represented in the British 

 Muséum from the Gold Coast, Abvssinia and Uganda. 



AUTHORS NOTE. 



This complètes the Passerine birds contained in the British 

 Muséum Collections from Southern Nigeria. The remaining 

 familles will be dealt with in a further installment to be published 

 in a future number of this journal. D. A. Bannerman. 



