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and contrasting with the ashy grey head ; cheeks ashy grey, hke the 
sides of the neck ; entire throat white, strongly defined ; remainder 
of under surface pale ashy browTH ; whitish on the lower abdomen, vent, 
and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy like 
the breast, the lower coverts slightly tinged with fawn-colour ; quills 
dusky brown below, pale ashy fulvous along the inner web. Total 
length 7*5 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3'85, tail 3"i, tarsus 0-85. 
After a careful comparison of specimens I have come to the con- 
clusion that the present bird is new to science. At first I thought it 
would be B. miiri/tus, Finsch and Hartl., but the ear-coverts in that 
species are described as being like the sides of the neck and crop, 
whereas here the ear-coverts are in strong contrast ; the under wing 
coverts also are not fawn-colour in Mr. Oates's specimens. Having 
compared it with all the other species of Bradyornis represented in 
the British Museum, I modify the " Key to the species," given in my 
Catalogue of Bi7'ds, vol. iii., p. 308, as follows : — 
a. Upper surface ashy or clear brown, not black. 
a. Above light reddish brown, uniform ; throat white, like the rest 
of the under surface ; under wing-coverts white. — mariqiceiisis. 
b'. Above ashy ; throat white, contrasting with the ashy under 
surface ; under wing-coverts like the breast. — Oatesii. 
c. Above light brown, uniform ; throat white, contrasting with the 
fawn-buff breast ; under wing-coverts fawn-colour. — pallidas, 7nodestus, 
etc. etc. 
The fawn-coloured under wing-coverts of B. pallidiis, the ashy 
brown throat and chest of B. chocolatinus, the reddish brown upper 
surface, and entirely white under surface of B. viariquensis, succes- 
sively prevent B. Oatesii^ from being considered synonymous. A bird, 
determined as B. fmiritius, F. and H., from the Congo (Sharpe and 
Bouv., Bull. Soc Zool. Fraiice, 1877), would appear to be the same 
as B. Oatesii, but is in worn plumage.] 
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Family DlCRURlD^. 
117. BUCHANGA ASSIMILIS (Bechst.) : Sharpe, Cat. B., iii. p. 247. 
African Drongo. 
a. 5 Crocodile River, July 1873. Iris crimson. Beetles and 
grasshoppers in stomach. 
b. 9 Tati, October 11, 1873. Iris crimson. 
c. Ramaqueban River, August 2, 1874. Iris deep red ; bill, legs, 
and claws black. 
Family Oriolid^E. 
1 18. Oriolus GALHULA, L. ; Sharpe, Cat. 7?., iii. p. 191. Golden Oriole. 
a. 9 Meriko River, November 16, 1873. Iris crimson. 
