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interior of Angola, while two birds in the British Museum 
obtained by Neave from the Upper Lualaba and Dikulwe 
rivers in Katanga are obviously referable to the same species. 
Neumann has described as distinct a T'schagra with oliva- 
ceous under parts from Pungo Andongo, some distance further 
north in the interior of the Loanda Province of Angola. It 
seems to me quite possible that this will turn out to be only 
the immature plumage of 7’. sowsae, as the bill in the two 
examples I have examined is pale, not black, a sure mark 
of immaturity in this genus. However, until further material 
is forthcoming it will perhaps be better to leave it as a 
subspecies. 
We have no field notes or information about the habits of 
this species, except that the native name is recorded by 
Anchieta as “ Xioca”’ in Benguella. 
Tschagra jamesi. 
Telephonus jamesi, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 403, pl. 10 Somaliland ; id. B. 
Afr. i. No. 759 (1896); Neumann J. f. O. 1907, p. 368; Banner- 
man, Ibis, 1910, p. 301 Waghar. 
Pomatorhynchus jamesi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 551 (1903), iii. p. 833 
(1905) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 301 (1903) ; Erlanger, J. f. O. 1909, 
p. 694 Somaliland. 
Subspecies a.—Tschagra mandana. 
Telephonus jamesi mandanus, Neum. Orn. Monatsb. 1903, p. 183 
Manda Isl. ; Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 833 (1905) ; Neumann, J. f. O. 
1907, p. 369. 
Subspecies b.—Tschagra kismayensis. 
Telephonus jamesi kismayensis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, p. 369 Kismayu. 
Adult. Above brownish ash; a black band of varying width down 
the centre of the head from the forehead to the nape, and another from 
the gape through the eye to above the ear-coverts; this is bordered 
above by a rather indistinct white eyebrow; wing-coverts and broad outer 
edges to the quills chestnut, a few of the outer coverts brown, margined 
with white, rest of the quills dark brown; tail with the two centre feathers 
brownish like the back and obsoletely barred with dusky, the others black 
