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1908. Mr. Joiirdain also described the breeding-habits of 

 the three species, laying especial stress on the remarkable 

 way in which the goslings manage to make their way down 

 from their nesting-sites in the crags to the marshy land at 

 the foot of the valleys below. The downs of the various 

 Geese are notoriously difficult to distinguish, but the feathers 

 found among the down of B. leucopsis never seem to show 

 more than a very pale greyish tinge, and are practically all 

 white. 



Mr. D. A. Bannerman exhibited and described a new 

 species of Paradise Flycatcher from Lagos, Southern Nigeria, 

 which he proposed to name : — 



Tchitrea fagani, sp. nov. 



Adult male (winter). General colour above olive-brown, 

 strongly washed with chestnut, becoming rufous on the 

 rump ; tail-feathers brown washed with pale rufous on the 

 inner webs ; scapulars and wing-coverts like the back ; 

 primaries black, secondaries and major-coverts black, edged 

 externally with rufous, the outermost washed with rufous on 

 the inner web. Head, throat, and nape glossy purplish-blue, 

 the blue reaching on to the mantle ; rest of under parts, 

 including the under wing-coverts, bright orange-chestnut 

 of exactly similar tone to the underparts in females of 

 T. nigriceps. 



Bill 14 mm. ; wing 81 mm, ; tarsus 18 mm. 



Adult female is similar in colouring, but is generally a 

 shade duller, particularly on the head and breast. 



Ohs. The new species is readily distinguished from 

 T. nigriceps by the dull russet-brown back, the blue of the 

 head extending on to the mantle, and the paler under surface. 

 The bill is rather larger. 



Type. S ad., Brit. Mus. Reg. No. 1920. 3. 10 .8, Iju Wiiter- 

 works, near Lagos, S. Nigeria, 20 Dec, 1919. Willoughby 

 P. Lowe Coll. 



This Flycatcher is named in affectionate memory of the 

 late Mr. C. E. Fagan, C.B.E., I.S.O., who did so much to 

 further Mr. Lowe's expeditions in West Africa. 



