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13 mm. long on the inner web and 31 mm. long on the outer 

 web. Remaining rectices white with mere indications o£ a 

 narrow terminal black band. Wing 87, culmen 14, and tail 

 56 mm. 



Mr. David Bannerman described the following birds from 

 the French Ivory Coast, West Africa : — 



-f- Apalis hardyi, sp. no v. 



Adult. Entire upper parts grey, the mantle, back, and 

 wing-coverts strongly washed with olive; quills dark brown, 

 under wing-coverts white. Cheeks, sides of the neck, breast, 

 and flanks grey ; chin and throat deep buff-colour ; middle 

 of belly white. Bill black, extreme tip white ; feet dark 

 flesh-colour ; iris brown. 



Bill 11, wing 45, tarsus 17 mm. 



Type. In the British Museum (No. 335). Bandama, Ivory 

 Coast, 29th December, 1922. W. P. Lowe and H. R. Hardy 

 colls. 



This species is named in honour of Mr. H. R. Hardy. 



OJ>s. This species is most nearly allied to A. goslingi Alex., 

 which Boyd Alexander obtained on the Guruba River in the 

 extreme north-east corner of the Belgian Congo. It may, 

 when further specimens of each are available, have to be 

 considered a race of that species, from which it differs in its 

 greyer head, back strongly washed with olive, greyer under- 

 parts which lack the buff tinge on the breast of A. goslingi, 

 deeper buff throat extending further on to the lower throaty 

 and the whiter belly. 



7^ Smithornis capensis delacouri, subsp. nov. 



Most nearly allied to S. c. albigularis, the race inhabiting 

 N. Angola. It has the white throat of that form and the 

 same amount of pale ochraceous on the under surface ; 

 the black streaks are, however, heavier and broader. The 

 upperside is more heavily marked with black, and the 

 feathers of the neck are grey with black centres, thus 

 separating the black head and nape from the ochraceous 



