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of which he recognized three races^ Avhich had been mixed up 

 by Dr. Gadow in the ' Cataloofue of Birds/ T]ic<=e were, 

 according to Captain SheWej, M. poUocephalus (Licht.), from 

 Western and North-eastern Africa, M. hlanchoti (Steph.). 

 from Zanzibar to Algoa Bav^ and M. approximans (Cab.), 

 from the Pangani River to Shoa. The species called by 

 Dr. Gadow Laniarius lajpopi/rrJtus was not really Hartlaub's 

 species of that name, and Capt. Shelley proposed the name 

 of Malaconoius gabo'fiensis for it {-^L. Jtypojnjrrlms, Gadov.-^ 

 nee Hartl.). 



While speaking of the African Shrikes he pointed ont that 

 Telephonas anchieta, Bocage, and T. minufus, Hartl., were 

 not true members of the genus Tehphonus, as the sexes 

 difler remarkably, the female being distinguished by a broad 

 white eyebrow, whereas in Tehphonus both male and female 

 are alike. The bill is also shorter and stouter than in the 

 last-named genus, and he therefore proposed to separate 

 the two species above mentioned under a new generic 

 heading — 



BocAGiA, gen. nov. 



Types, B. mhiuta (Hartl.) and B. avchictce (Bocage). 



Professor Barboza du Bocage sent for exhibition the skin 

 of an apparently new species of Bradyornis, which he had 

 received from Galanga in Angola. He proposed to call it 



Bradyornis sharpii, sp. n. 

 Similis B. boehnii, Eeichenow, sed rostro nigro, mandibula 

 baud flavida, et pileo chocolatino concolori, nee griseo : 

 fascia cen'icali grisescenti nulla. Long. tot. 5*6 poll., 

 alse 3-2. 



Dr. BowTDLER Sharps laid upon the table the first two 

 livraisons of Fatio and Studer's ' Catalogue des Oiseaux de 

 la Suisse,^ and pointed out the useful work that could be 

 done by any English ornithologist who devoted himself to 

 working out the ranges of British Birds in the same manner 

 as had been done by these Swiss naturalists. The maps 

 showing the distribution of each species in Switzerland formed 



