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the nostrils bare^ the frontal feathers directed backwards^ 

 while in Copsychus the nasal operculum is completely or 

 nearly hidden by bristly feathers, which are directed forwards. 

 The tail is not graduated, but the outermost pair of rectrices 

 are about 23 mm. shorter than the following pairs, which are 

 of about equal length, except the middle pair, which, in the 

 male, are 7 mm. shorter. The sexes are alike ia colour, as in 

 Copsychus seychellarum, while in the Indian and Malayan 

 forms the sexes difEer. 



Xenocopsychus ansorgei, sp. n. 



Adult male. Upper surface dark slate-grey, upper tail- 

 coverts white. A white superciliary line from the forehead 

 to the sides of the nape. Chin, lores, sides of the head and 

 neck black. Remiges black, inner webs narrowly edged 

 with dirty white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and a few 

 of the adjoining greater wing-coverts black ; rest of the wing- 

 coverts white, the innermost ones black or with the outer 

 web only white. Outer pair of rectrices white with the distal 

 half of the outer web black ; the two adjoining pairs entirely 

 white ; fourth pair white with the middle portion of the shaft 

 black ; fifth pair with the greater part of the outer web black, 

 inner web and tip of the outer one white ; middle pair black 

 with a tiny white spot at the tip. Underside, except the clun, 

 white. Axillaries and under wing-coverts white, those near 

 the bend of the wing black. " Iris dark brown ; bill and 

 feet black." Wing 101 ; tail 114; culmen 19"5 ; metatarsus 

 31 mm. 



Adult female. Similar to the male^ but slightly smaller. 

 Wing 95 mm. The middle pair of rectrices are not appar- 

 ently shortened. 



Hah. Lobango, Mossamedes, Angola. 



Type in the Tring Museum: S, No. 287. Lobango, 

 18. ii. 1906: Dr. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Obs. One pair were obtained. 



Certhilauda albofasciata ERiKSsoNi, subsp. n. 

 Adult. Upper surface greyish-buff or gieyish-cream-colour 

 (not rufous-isabellinc or sandy-rufous), with the middles of 



