Yo\. xxiii.] 46 



tinge on the upperside and a distinct wash of the same 

 colour on the underside. Culmen 15-16 mm. ; wing 98-101. 



Hab. Haussa Countries between Lake Chad and the Benue 

 River. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Bautchi, 11. ix. 04. Boyd 

 Alexander coll. 



Obs. The true G. c. senegallensis, Miill. (of which 

 Mr. Eiggenbach has sent three specimens to the Tring 

 Museum), is a much darker and browner bird, with broad 

 black stripes on the throat, and a much longer bill. This 

 form is very similar to G. c. riggenbacM, Hartert, from South 

 Morocco, and to G. c. altirostris, C. L. Brehm, from Lower 

 Egypt. Culmen, S 19, ? 17^ mm. ; wing, S 99-102, 

 ? 96. 



Trochocercus albonotatus swynnertoni, subsp. n. 



Trochocercus albonotatus, Swynnerton (nee Sharpe), Ibis, 

 1907, p. 70. 



Adult male. Similar to T. a. albonotatus, Sharpe, from the 

 mountains near Lake Nyasa, Lakes Tanganyika and Kivu, 

 and from Elgon, Mau, and Kikuyu, but without elongated 

 crest-feathers. Throat and sides of the head grey (instead 

 of black) ; tail-feathers dark grey, with the white tips less 

 extended and not so sharply defined as iu T. a. albonotatus. 

 The white colour runs up along the shafts of the outer 

 tail-feathers, and the shafts of these are nearly entirely 

 white, even within the dark parts of the feathers. Wing 

 62-65 mm. ; tail 62-72. 



Hab. Chirinda Forest, Gaza-land, 3800-4000 feet. 



Type in the British Museum : c? • 13. vii. 07. C. F. M. 

 Swynnerton coll. 



Macrosphenus leoninus, sp. n. 



Adult. Olive-green. Throat and middle of the abdomen 

 golden-yellow. Hidden parts of the very long and fluffy 

 rump-feathers sulphur-yellow. Culmen 20 mm, ; wing 52 ; 

 tail 25 ; tarsus 22. 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



