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MALIMBUS RUBRICOLLIS BARTLETTI (Sharpe). 

 Malimbus bartletti Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 479. 



One adult male. <'Bill black; feet purplish-black; iris chocolate 

 brown." Length, 214 mm.; exj)anse, 337 mm. Golah name, "Way- 

 see-eh." This form undoubtedly intergrades with the more southern 

 Malimhus ruhricolUs, to which it is closely related; and its name should 

 thus be, as above given, a trinomial. 



NIGRITA BICOLOR (Hartlaub). 



Pytelia Mcolor Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Bremen, 1844, p. 76. 

 Nigrita Mcolor Sclater, Contr. Orn., 1852, p. 83. 



One specimen, apparently not different from a Fan tee example. 

 "Bill black ; feet dark brown ; iris crimson." Length, 114 mm. ; extent, 

 163.5 mm. 



AMAURESTHES FRINGILLOIDES (Lafresnaye). 



Ploceus fringilloides Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., 1835, pi. 48. 

 Jmauresthes fringilloides Eeichenbach, Singv., 1861, p. 86, pi. 44, fig. 322. 



One specimen, April 22, 1897, in fresh plumage, with molt not quite 

 comi)leted. Length, 135 mm. ; expanse, 195 mm. 



Family HIRUKDINID^. 



HIRUNDO NIGRITA Gray. 



Hirundo nigrita Gray, Gen. Birds, 1, 1845, pi. 40. 

 Three specimens, two males and one female, April 13 and 28, 3897, 

 all showing some indication of incomplete molt. The latter seems to be 

 somewhat less jmrplish than the males, but there is no other apparent 

 difference. One of the males measures, length, 142 mm. ; extent, 303 

 mm. "Bill and feet black." 



Family DIORUEID^. 



DICRURUS MODESTUS ATACTUS, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Dicrurus modestus modestus, but plumage of 

 body, particularly above, much more glossy, the velvety appearance 

 almost entirely absent ; no conspicuous contrast between the feathers 

 of head and back. 



Wing, 118 mm. ; tail, 104 mm. ; exposed culmen, 22 mm. ; tarsus, 20 

 mm. ; middle toe, 15 mm. 



Description. — Type, sex unknown, No. 147202, U.S.N.M.; Fantee, 

 West Africa. General color glossy black, with bluish metallic reflec- 

 tions, these most evident on the upper parts, nearly absent on the 

 throat; top of head almost uniform with the back, though slightly 

 greenish, as are the upper tail-coverts ; wings brownish black, the lesser 

 coverts like the back, the remaining coverts and the quills glossed 



