NO. 1180. BIRDS FROM WEST AFRICA— OBEEROLSER. 19 



duller below, with a much more deeply ochraceous superciliary stripe. 

 Telophomis ausfralis usslieri seems to be a very good race, and some 

 additional characters separating it from true austraUs are the darker 

 shade of the upper surface, the rather lighter, less ochraceous super- 

 ciliary stripe, and much paler auriculars. In the present specimen of 

 usslieri the dark bars on the two middle tail feathers are much more 

 indistinct than on any of the examples of austraUs available for com- 

 parison. 



The specific name austraUs appears to be the correct one for the bird 

 commonly known as TelopJionus trivirgatus, since Malaconotus austraUs 

 Smith ^ has thirteen years priority over the same author's trivirgatus. 



Family ORIOLID^. 



ORIOLUS NIGRIPENNIS Verreaux. 



Oriolus niyripennis Verreaux, Joura. f. Orn., 1855, p. 105. 

 Two specimens in adult plumage. This species is, besides its other 

 points of dilierence, very much more yellowish green above than either 

 Oriolus larvatus or Oriolus larvatus hrachyrhynchus. 



Family PRIONOPID.^. 



FRASERIA OCHREATA (.Strickland). 



Tephrodornis ochreatus Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1844, p. 102. 

 Fraseria ochreata Hartlaub, Orn. West Afr., 1857, p. 102. 



Five specimens, two adults and three more or less immature. The 

 former are sexed as males, and are apparently typical. One of them 

 has a broad white tip to one of the right scapulars — evidently an 

 albinistic marking. The immature birds diiier in being rather lighter 

 and browner above, with narrow falvous tips to the greater wing-cov- 

 erts, and in being washed with ochraceous below, most conspicuously 

 on the breast and jugulum, though in one example quite strongly over 

 nearly all the lower surface. The squamations on the chest are much 

 less distinct than in the adult, being rather narrower, as well as paler 

 and more brownish. 



Whether or not Fraseria should be included among the Prionopidse 

 may well be questioned, but its scutellated tarsus indicates that it is 

 not a thrush, although it has been placed in the family Turdidae by 

 Captain Shelley.^ 



' Eep. Expl. Exped. Cent. Afr., 1836, p. 44. 2 girds of Africa, 1, 1896, p. 83 



