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Mus.), Togo, Mozambique (Brit. Mus.), South Somali- 

 land (Ing-elheim Mus.). 



Professor Neumann also exhibited specimens of Dicrocercus 

 among which was the type of Merops furcatus, StanL, kindly 

 lent by Dr. H. O. Forbes, Director of the Liverpool Museums. 

 He made the following remarks : — 



"As already stated by H. C. Robinson (Bull. Liverpool 

 Mus. II. p. 30.), the type of Merops furcatus is a bird 

 without blue on the forehead, and therefore in every 

 respect the Merops hirundineus, Licht., from South Africa, 



" The type specimen was probably collected by Salt in 

 Mozambique, where the famous explorer remained for some 

 time on his way to Abyssinia, and where he collected many 

 birds. Probably the labels have been confounded, as 

 was the case with Prionops poUocephalus. I may add 

 here, that the type of Lanius poUocephalus, Stanl., which is 

 atill in the Liverpool Musemn, and which I examined last 

 year, proved to be the South African bird, hitherto called 

 Prionops talacoma, Smith, as I had already suggested before 

 seeing it (J. f. O., 1905, p. 216-220). 



" I am not of the opinion of Mr. Eobinson that the name 

 Merops chrysolaimus, Jard. and Selb., must be rejected on 

 account of ambiguity, because they described and figured a 

 bird with a blue forehead, although they gave as localities 

 * Cape of Grood Hope ' as well as ' Sierra Leone ' and 

 ^ Gambia.' 



" The description and figure imdoubtedly represent the 

 West African bird. The N.E. African birds, of which two 

 forms can be distinguished, are therefore undescribed. I 

 propose to call the birds from the Upper White Nile " ; — 



DlCBOCERCUS HIRUNDINEUS HEUGLINI, Subsp. U. 



Similar to D. h. chrysolaemus from North-west Africa, 

 but the blue of the belly, the upper and under tail-coverts, 

 and especially of the throat band is of a deeper tint. 



Hob. Upper White I^ile and Grazelle river districts. 

 Type ? , Bongo, 8. x. 1863, Heuglin, coU. (Mus., Stuttgart). 



