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true harbatus; but intermediate specimens, from the region of the river 

 Niger/ make necessary its reduction to subspeciflc rank. An example 

 in the U. S. National Museum collection, from Fantee, is intermediate, 

 but apparently nearer f/abonensis. 



Family MUSGIOAPID^. 



STIZORHINA FRASERI (Strickland). 



Muscicapa fraseri Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1844, p. 101. 



Stizorhina fraseri Oberholskr, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., June, 1899, p. 213. 



Two specimens. Both are sexed as males, but one is noticeably paler 

 both above and below, having also much less rusty on the superior 

 wing-coverts, is slightly smaller, and may possibly be a feniale. 



TCHITREA VIRIDIS (Muller). 



Muscicapa viridis Muller, Syst. Nat., Anliang, 1776, p. 171. 

 Muscicapa cristata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 1, 1788, p. 938. 



One specimen of this puzzling species is in the collection. The head 

 is metallic greenish blue, as is also the throat, which shades off gradu- 

 ally into the bluish slate of the abdomen and crissum; the back and 

 well-developed tail are rufous. . 



This is the species commonly called Terpsiphone cristata^ but Mtiller's 

 name viridis has twelve years' priority, and should not be ignored, 



ARTOMYIAS FULIGINOSA J. and E. Verreaux. 



Artomyias fuUginosa J. and E. Verreaux, Journ. f. Orn., March, 1855, p. 104. 

 One specimen, in rather poor plumage, taken June 8, 1895. It is 

 marked female. 



DIAPHOROPHYIA CASTANEA (Eraser). 



Platysteira castanea Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1842, p. 141. 

 Diaphoroplvyia castanea Sharpe, Ibis, 1873, p. 172. 



Three specimens. Two are adult males in breeding plumagej the 

 other is apparently a young female. It differs from the adult female in 

 being rather darker above, the head dull grayish brown instead of 

 bluish gray; the burnt- sienna brown of throat and jugulum much 

 mixed with whitish. 



Family NECTAEINIID^. 



ANTHREPTES FRASERI Jardine and Selby. 

 Anthreptes fraseri Jardine and Selby, 111, Orn., 1842, nev" ser., pi. 52. 

 One specimen, apparently an adult female, taken June 15, 1895. 

 This rare sunbird does not seem ever to have been recorded north of 

 Gaboon, and thus is a very interesting addition, to the fauna of the 

 Cameroon s District. 



' Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VI, 1881, p. 147, 



