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Calamonastes pasciolatus pallidior^ subsp. n. 



Adult. Differs from C. f. fasciolatus in its paler coloration. 

 The uppersurface is of a paler and somewhat more sanely- 

 brown ; the undersurface is^ on the whole, whiter_, the zigzag 

 bars on the lower throat and chest being less sharply defined 

 or narrower; the flanks^ vent, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 paler and more buffy. Dimensions as in C. f. fasciolatus. 

 Iris neutral orange or red; bill dark slaty grey, pale at the 

 base of the lower mandible ; feet pale brown. 



Hab. Pluxe, Sandpits, and Makonjo, in Benguella. 



Type in the Triiig Museum : adult, No. 259. Sandpits, 

 Beuguella, 8. vii. 04 : W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Obs. Dr. Ansorge has sent a series of adult and young- 

 specimens. 



Sylvietta ansorgei, sp. n. 



Adult male and female. Uppersurface grey with a 

 brownish-buff tinge; upper tail-coverts tipped with brownish- 

 butf; remiges deep brown, outwardly margined with pale, 

 brownish-grey, inwardly with brownish-buff ; inner secon- 

 daries like the back ; rectrices like the back, with narrow 

 buff edges; superciliary line whitish-buff; line through the 

 eye dusky grey; ear-coverts brownish-buff. Undersurface 

 white ; sides, a more or less distinct band across the chest, 

 belly, and under tail-coverts ochraceous buff; thighs buff; 

 under wing-coverts buff. Iris neutral orange ; upper man- 

 dible dark brown, lower purplish-grey at the base ; feet 

 purplish-slate. Wing, ^ 58-59, ? 54-56; tail, S' 25-26, 

 $ 22-2-4; culmen 14; tarsus 18*5-19 mm. 



Hab. Loanda, in Angola ; Huxe and Sandpits, in 

 Benguella. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ , No. 152. Huxe, 28. vi. 04 : 

 W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Criniger barbatus ansokgeanus, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Differs from C. b. barbatus from the Gold 

 Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Gambia, in having a paler 

 throat, the gular feathers whitish-yellow with sulphur-yellow 

 edges, instead of sulphur-yellow with bright yellow borders, 



