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Captain Shelley exhibited some specimensof African birds, 

 amongst which were some new species, which he described 

 as follows : — 



1. P^OPTERA KENRICKI, Sp. n. 



Brunnescenti-nigra, vix metallica, seneo paullulum adum- 

 brata. Long. tot. 7*5 poll., alse 4. 

 Hab. Usambara Mts. Type in Shelley collection. 



2. Artamia comorensis. 



Similis A. bicolori, sed major : supra concolor, saturate 

 cyanea, vix lilaciuo lavata. Long. tot. 6"5 poll., alse 3'75. 

 Hab. Great Comoro Island {Kirk) . Type in Shelley col- 

 lection. 



Captain Shelley further pi'oposed the name of Enne- 

 octonus reichenovi, as an emended title for Lanins ojffinis, 

 Reichenow, J. f. O. 1884, p. 261 (nee Legge, Str. F. 1876, 

 p. 243) . 



He also made some remarks on Malaconotus poliocephalus , 

 of which he recognized three races, which had been mixed up 

 by Dr. Gadow in the ' Catalogue of Birds.' These were, 

 according to Captain She\\ej,M. poliocephalus (Licht.),from 

 Western and North-eastern Africa, 31. blanchoti (Steph.), from 

 Zanzibar to Algoa Bay, and M. approximans (Cab.), from the 

 Pangani Eiver to Shoa. The species called by Dr. Gadow 

 Laniarius hypopyrrhus was not really Hartlaub^s species of that 

 name, and Capt. Shelley proposed the name of Malaconotus 

 yabonensis for it ( = Z/. hypopijrrhus , Gadow, nee Hartl.). 



While speaking of the African Shrikes Capt. Shelley 

 pointed out that Telephonus anchietce, Boeage, and T. minutus, 

 Hartl., were not true members of the genus Telephonus, 

 as the sexes differed remarkably, the female being dis- 

 tinguished by a broad white eyebrow, whereas in Telephonus 

 both male and female were alike. The bill was also shorter 

 and stouter than in the last-named genus. He therefore 

 proposed to separate the two species above mentioned under 

 a new generic heading as — 



BocAGiA, gen. nov. 

 Types, B. minuta (Hartl.) and B. anchietce (Boeage). 



