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Hub. North-east Chilili, China. 



The type is in the collection of Mr. J. D. La Touche. 

 Obs. Three examples, in whicli the sex was not ascer- 

 tained, were captured in January 1915. 



Mr. Claude H. B. Grant sent the descriptions * of the 

 following nine new subspecies of birds from Africa, which 

 he proposed to name : — 



Centropus grillii wahlbergi, subsp. n. 



Female {vioc adult). In size it is similar to C. g. grillii, 

 but differs from that race in having the entire head, except 

 for the ear-coverts, glossy blue-black, without the green 

 sheen, but not of quite so deep a blue as is shown in the 

 type of C. g. cosruleiceps ; the blue head is sharply defined, 

 not merging gradually into the colour of the back ; the 

 mantle is chestnut, rather darker than the wing-coverts, 

 but altogether lacking the dark coloration of the Nyasa- 

 land bird. 



Culmen 27 mm. ; wing 173 ; tail 189; tarsus 38. 



Hab. Natal, ranging to the Eastern Transvaal. 



Type in the British Museum : ? ad. vix (No. 7388). 

 Umslango, Port Natal, 28. xi. 40. Ex Wahlberg coll. 



Indicator minor alexanderi, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar in size to /. m. minor, from which it 

 differs in having the top of the head and nape of a clearer 

 grey, without the olive wash, the whole of the underparts 

 clear grey, likewise without any olive tinge. The markings 

 on the wings and back rather more clearly defined and 

 brighter in colour. 



Culmen 12 mm. ; wing 95 ; tail 64 ; tarsus 11. 

 . Hab. Gold Coast Colony. 



Type in the British Museum : c^ ad. Gambaga, Gold 

 Coast Hinterland, 28. xii. 00. Boyd Alexander coll. 



* [The foUowiug descriptions of new birds are inserted under the 

 first paragraph of the addition to Rule VI. of the British Ornithologists' 

 I Club {vide Bull. B. 0. C. xxxv. 1915 p. 40).— Ed,] 



