18 PRO CEEDINGS OF TEE NA TIONA L M USE UM. vol. xxit. 



tlie Cameroons. ^o other specimens are at j)resent available for com- 

 parison, so that it is impossible to add anything to his remarks. One 

 of the present examples, probably an immature bird, has a conspicuous 

 brownish tinge to the entire plumage, this most noticeable below, the 

 abdomen being almost entirely devoid of any greenish shade. 



Family DICEUEID^. 



DICRURUS MODESTUS Hartlaub. 



Dicrurus modestus Hartlaub, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1849, p. 495. 



One adult male, June 5, 1895. In process of molt, this particularly 

 observable in the feathers of the wings, tail, throat, and sides of head. 

 This example is slightly less velvety above than others of the same 

 species, in this respect appearing to be somewhat intermediate between 

 true modestus of Gaboon and atactus^ from Liberia and Fantee. 



Family LANIID^E. 



NICATOR CHLORIS (Lesson). 



Tchagra chloris Lessox, Traite d'Orn., 1831, p. 373. 



Nicator chloris Finsch and Hartlaub, Vog. Ostafr., 1870, p. 360. 



One specimen, apparently identical with others from Fantee and 

 Gaboon 



CHAUNONOTUS SABINEI Gray. 



ThamnopMlus sabinei J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc., I, p. 6. 

 Chaimonotus sabinei J. E. Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., IX, 1837, p. 487. 



One specimen, July 15, 1895, with molt not quite completed. The 

 structural characters of this species seem quite sufficient to warrant its 

 generic separation from Dryoscopus. 



DRYOSCOPUS LEUCORHYNCHUS Hartlaub. 



Telephonus leucorhynchus Hartlaub, Eev. Zool., 1848, p. 108. 

 Dryoscopvs leucorhynchus Hartlaub, Orn. W. Afr., 1857, p. 112. 



One specimen, differing from a Gaboon example in having less of the 

 brownish tinge, this appreciable throughout the plumage, and in hav- 

 ing a shorter tail; but whether these differences are geographical or 

 merely individual is not possible to determine from the material at hand. 



TELOPHONUS AUSTRALIS USSHERI (Sharpe). 



Laniariiis ussheri Sharpe, Layard's Birds S. Africa, 1882, p. 397. 

 Telephonus ussheri Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VIII, 1883, p. 124. 



One male, June 14. The specific distinctness of Teloplionus australis 

 from Telophonns senegalus appears to be perfectly well established on 

 the differences mentioned by Dr. Gadow ;^ and the latter is also darker, 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXII, 1899, p. 35. 

 -Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., VIII, 1883, p. 124. 



