47 [Vul. xxiii. 



Type iu the British Museum : Rotifuuk, Sierra Leone. 

 Robin Kemp coll. 



Obs. The long and slender bill and the proportions of the 

 other parts are the same as in Amaurocichla (better Macro- 

 sphenus) kempt, Sharpe, and these two birds may eventually 

 turn out to be male and female of one and the same species, 

 but they are very differently coloured. Camaroj)teru con- 

 color, Hartl., is also a Macrosphenus. As in the Shrikes, all 

 these birds have the bill distinctly hooked, a character absent 

 in all the species of true Camaroptera and in Amaurocichla 

 bocagei, Sharpe. 



CiSTICOLA SlMPLlClSSniA, Sp. D. 



Adult male. Similar to rufous specimens of C. rufa, Fraser ; 

 but the tail-feathers are uniform dark brown, without an 

 indication of a subterminal black bar. There is no indication 

 of stripes on the upperparts, and the bill is very small. 

 Culmen 7 mm.; wing 49 ; tail 47. 



Hab. Benguella. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Kukema River, Bihe, 

 Angola, 8. xii. 04. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Prof. Neumann further exhibited the types of Pyrom,elana 

 ansorgei, Hart., Penthetria hartlaubi, Cab. (nee Bocage), and 

 CuUuspasser dubiosus, Neum., which turned out to be males 

 of one and the same species, the two latter being in the 

 winter-dress, while the former was in the breeding-dress. He 

 also showed a fine specimen oi P yromelana gierowi, Cab., from 

 North Angola, a species not yet represented in the British 

 Museum, and the female of Pytelia ansorgei, Hartert. Of 

 the latter species six specimens were known. The type from 

 Toro was a very damaged specimen, so that the true coloration 

 could not be seen. A male collected during the Ruwenzori 

 Expedition had the upper breast olive-yellow like the upper- 

 side, while in the female exhibited, which had been obtained 

 by Mr. Grauer on an island in Lake Kivu, the whole 

 underside below the white bar which borders the black throat 

 was grey. 



