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in larger size; much darker top and sides of head; darker sides of 
neck; and less yellowish lower surface. 
Comparative measurements of the three forms are as follows: 
Name. | Locality. Wing. | Tail. aa Tarsus. ges 
Prosphorocichla scandens | Senegal. 118 109 15.52 | oy.5 fone 
scandens. | : ‘ 
Prosphorocichla scandens | Ogobai River, 96 88 T5528 16 
acedts.} Gabun. | 
Prosphorocichla scandens | Ogobai River, 100 96 15.5 | 25 16.5 
acedts. | Gabun. | 
Prosphorocichla scandens | Tamaja, British 93 80 15 | 22 — 
orientalis.? Equatorial Africa. | 
This genus apparently comprises only the following: 
Prosphorocichla scandens scandens (Swainson) (= pallescens Hartlaub). 
Prosphorocichla scandens acedis Oberholser. 
Prosphorocichla scandens orientalis (Hartlaub). 
BAEOPOGON Heine 
Baeopogon Herne, Journ. f. Ornith., 1860, p. 139. 
Chars. gen.—Somewhat resembling Bleda, but tail very much 
shorter; nostrils linear, operculate; bill shorter, much depressed, 
broader than high at base, the culmen curved almost throughout, the 
gonys but slightly ascending ; rictal and nasal bristles much shorter ; 
tarsus relatively longer. 
Description—Tail about three-fourths of wing; throat feathers 
not lengthened ; tarsus strongly scutellate; wing nearly 5 times the 
tarsus; tarsus 114 times the culmen; head not crested; hairs on nape 
short, much compound; rictal bristles reaching about one-third the 
length of the bill, not beyond the anterior margin of nostrils; bill 
rather short and stout, decidedly depressed, much broader than high 
both at base and anterior edge of nostrils, its height at base about 
equal to one-third the length of exposed culmen ; culmen moderately 
curved almost or quite from. base; gonys but slightly ascending ; 
maxillar tomium with only one subterminal notch; nostrils linear, 
strongly operculate, the frontal feathering not extending beyond 
their posterior margin; nasal vibrissae few and short. 
Type.—Criniger indicator VERREAUX. 
This very distinct genus may easily be distinguished from all its 
* Type. 
2 Measurements from original description, loc. cit. 
* Imperfect. 
