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DENDROMUS PERMISTUS (Reichenow). 



Picus (Campothera) permistus Reichknow, Journ. flir Orn., 1876, p. 97. 

 Campethera permista Shakpe and Buvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 312. 



The single example is an adult male. It differs from an Angola 

 female in the U. S. National Museum by reason of its brighter green 

 upper surface and deeper color below — the latter particularly noticeable 

 posteriorly — and by its somewhat smaller size. Should a satisfactory 

 series prove these differences to be sufficiently constant, the Cameroons 

 form, provisionally established on smaller .size by Dr. Sjostedt,' must 

 be known as Dendromtis permistus pumilus. 



The generic term Dendromus Swainson, 1837, antedates by several 

 years Campethera Gray, 1841, and should be used for the group which 

 in current usage passes under the name Campoihera. There is no more 

 reason for rejecting Dendromus on the ground of a former iJendromys^ 

 than there would be to refuse Pica on account of a previous Ficus, for 

 Dendromus is derived from devdpov and Spopios, while Dendromys 

 comes from devdpov and ywu?, the terminal elements involving more 

 than mere grammatical endings, although as latinized they differ only 

 in a single letter. 



Family TL'OGONID^. 



APALODERMA NARINA (Levaillant). 



Couroucoa narina Levaillant, Ois. d'Afr., V, 1806, p. 73. 

 Apaloderma narina (Swainson, Classlf. Birds, II, 1837, p. 337. 



The single specimen is an immature male, and differs from all the 

 other examples of this form with which it has been compared in the 

 color of the upper surface, which is clear grass-green, with scarcely a 

 trace of the bronzy tinge so evident in ordinary specimens. Otherwise 

 it is apparently typical, the wing-coverts being broadly edged with 

 green, thus showing no approach to constantia. 



Family PYCNONOTIDiE.^ 



BLEDA ' ICTERINA (Bonaparte). 



Trichophorus icterinua Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, I, 1850, p. 262 (ex Temminck, 

 manuscript)'. 



One adult male, in breeding plumage. This species is commonly 

 placed in the genus Griniger, and by Captain Shelley^ in PyrrhuruSy 

 but in i^attern of coloration, as well as in structural characters, it is so 



1 Ornilh. Monatsbericlite, II, 1894, p. 35. 



2Siuitli, Zool. Journ., IV, 1829, p. 439. 



•" Brachypodidie is certainly untenable as a family name for this group if the genus 

 Brachijpodius, upon which it is founded, be considered a synonym of Microtarsua. 

 Even if Brachypodiiis is distinct, the proper designation for the family is apparently 

 Pycnonotidaj, since it seems to have beeu the name first used. 



* For the use of this name, see Richmond, Auk., XVI, April, 1899, p. 183. 



6 Birds of Africa, 1, 1896, p. 64. 



