128 BIRDS OP DAMARA LAND. 



responding measurement in the Damara bird by about three 

 tenths of an inch ; and the tarsus of the Cape bird is fully one 

 tenth of an inch longer than that of its Damara congener. 



The late Mr. Strickland's collection^ now preserved in the 

 Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, contains a Dicrurus from 

 KordofaUj labelled " D. divaricatus ;" and to this species Mr. 

 Strickland also referred the Damara race, from which, however, 

 this Kordofan specimen differs in having the secondary wing- 

 feathers about a quarter of an inch shorter, and the bill a little 

 broader at the base. 



For the reasons explained in Lord Waldeu's remarks, I have 

 not treated the Damara race of this Dicrurus as specifically 

 distinct from that found at the Cape. — Ed.J 



MusciCAPiD.a:. 



162. Melanopepla pammelsena (Stanley). Black Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa luguhris, Miiller's Oia. d'Afrique, pi. 2. 

 MelcBnornis ater, Layard's Cat. No. 305. 

 Melanopepla paminelcena, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 4258. 

 Bradyoriiis pamnielcma, Finseh & Hartlaub's Vbgel Ost-Afrika's, 

 p. 320. 



[Drs. Finseh and Hartlaub refer [loc. cit.) to two examples of 

 this species obtained in Damara Land, one of which, if not both, 

 was collected by Mr. Andersson. 



A short note in Mr. Andersson's MS., referring to a bird 

 resembling Dicrurus Ludwigi, Smith, and found sparingly near 

 the Okavango River, was probably intended to apply to this 

 species. — Ed.J 



163. Bradornis mariquensis, Smith. Mariqua Flycatcher. 



Bradornis mariguensisj Smitli's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 113. 

 Bradyornis mariquensis, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soo. 

 1864, p. 2. 

 „ „ Andersson, ibid. p. 5. 



