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the British Museum is labeled " Fernando Po ; " the exact habitat 

 of the other one is not known. Onychognathus is a beautiful transi- 

 tional form, intermediate between Amydrvs and Lamprocolius. 



2. Telephonus minutus, sp. nov. 



Minor ; pileo toto nigro ; striola superciliari gracili albida ; cervice 

 el interscapulio immaculate fulvis ; dorso medio longitudinaliter 

 nigro variegato ; tergo et uropygio fulvis ; loris albidis ; alis 

 rufts, remigibus primariis in pogonio interno nigricanti-fuscis, 

 tertiariis et tectricibus majoribus in medio longitudinaliter nigri- 

 cantibus ; subalaribus fulvis ; rectricibus fusco-nigris, duabus 

 externis fulvescente extus limbatis, extimce apice latius pallido ; 

 corpore inferiore totofulvo, gula pallidiore ; rostro valido nigro ; 

 pedibus fuscis . 

 long. 7", rostr. a fr. 8f" 5 al. 2" 7'", caud. 3'". tars. llf". 

 Hub. Ashantee. 



This is the smallest species of the exclusively African genus Tele- 

 phonus. It is, perhaps, not generally known in this country, that 

 the German traveller, Dr. A. Brehm, a very acute and scientific na- 

 turalist, who has explored the Ornithology of Spain better than 

 any person before him, most decidedly contradicts the occurrence 

 of Telephonus cucullatus or of any other species of this group in 

 that country. Temminck's indication to the contrary appears to 

 be one of those many errors occurring in Part 3 and 4 of the ' Ma- 

 nuel d'Ornithologie ; ' at least it was regarded as such by every 

 person in Spain who had paid any attention to the birds of the 

 country, and Dr. Brehm himself could not discover there the slightest 

 trace of this bird. 



Another striking and interesting example of the incorrectness of 

 local indications in the 'Manuel d'Ornithologie,' is given in the total 

 absence of the Ixos obscurus from Spain or any other country in 

 the south of Europe. 



Two specimens of T. minutus are in the collection of the British 

 Museum, which besides possesses a very complete set of all the 

 other known species of the genus. 



3. Andropadus erythropterus, G. R. Gray, MS. 



Obscure olivaceus, alis totis et imprimis tectricibus distincte rufes- 

 centibus ; remigum marginibus internis pallidis ; subalaribus fla- 

 vidis ; cauda fusca ; corpore inferiore pallidiore, fiavescente ; 

 rostro fusco, apice et mandibula tot a favidis ; pedibus pallidis. 

 Long. tot. 6", rostr. b\" , al. 2" 8'", caud. 2" 9'", tars. 8'". 

 Hab. Ashantee. 



Another bird of one of those exclusively African genera which seem 

 to have their full development on the western coast. The other spe- 

 cies are A. importunus from the Cape, A. latirostris and A. graci- 

 lirostrh, both widely distributed along the western coast, and A. 

 virens of Cassin, discovered by Du Chaillu on the banks of the river 

 Muni and near Cape Lopez. The colouring of all these species is 



