70 DR. J. E. GRAY ON THE GENUS ORCA. (Jan. 27, 
death will not fail to be regarded by every one as a most serious loss 
to the cause of African ornithology. 
CAMPEPHAGA ANDERSSON], sp. n. (Plate IV.) 
C. supra pulchre cinerea, uropygio paullo pallidiore ; remigibus 
cinerascentibus, secundariis externe cinereo lavatis et gracillime 
albo marginatis ; rectricibus mediis cinereis, reliquis nigris albo 
terminatis, duobus extimis albo marginatis : fronte basali et re- 
gione oculari albis, loris nigricantibus: subtus purissime alba, 
gutture circumscripte pallide cinereo. 
Long. tot. 9 poll. Angl., al. 5:4. 
Hab. in terra Damarensi. 
Above delicate grey, a little lighter on the rump; wing-coverts 
uniform with the back ; quills ashy brown, exteriorly margined with 
white; the outer web of the inner secondaries light grey, the innermost 
secondaries being entirely of this colour; tail black, narrowly tipped 
with white, the two middle feathers ashy grey, with obscure cross 
markings in some lights, the outer rectrix having the outer web 
white ; the base of the forehead and the feathers in front of and 
round the eye white; the space between the base of the bill and the 
eye black ; the entire under surface of the body pure white, the throat 
with a crescent-like band of clear grey, cutting off the chin from the 
breast, both of these being pure white; bill and feet black. Total 
length 9 inches, of bill from front 9°7, wing 5°4, tail 4°*7, tarsus 0°85. 
Hab, Ovaquenyama, Damara Land, June 25th, 1867 (C. J. An- 
dersson ; spec. in mus. R. B. S.). 
Besides an apparent difference in the extent of white on the ex- 
terior tail-feathers, this new species seems at once to be distinguished 
from Campephaga frenata by the colour of the throat, which in 
this latter species, according to Dr. Hartlaub’s description (/. ¢.), is 
entirely obscure greyish ashy. 
6. Notes on the Skulls of the Genus Orca in the British 
Museum, and notice of a Specimen of the Genus from 
the Seychelles. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
Mr. Swinburne Ward_has kindly sent a very beautiful skull of a 
* Killer”’ taken in the sea near the Seychelles Islands. 
To determine this skull:I have been induced to compare the 
skulls of the genus in the British Museum, which it is very necessary 
to do from time to time, as specimens gradually accumulate, and 
often arrive when I am occupied on other subjects, and consequently 
are put aside for future examination. 
In this examination I have observed that in the ‘ Catalogue of Seals 
and Whales’ I have confounded the skull described under the name 
of Orca capensis with one from the North Pacific, the former being 
the true Orca capensis, and the skull now received from the Sey- 
chelles Islands being of the same species. 
