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LXIV. MELANOPTERYX, Reiclienow. 



(Eeicheuow, Zool. Jahi-b. 1886, p. 125 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 476, 1890 ; 

 Eeichenow, Yog. Afrikas, iii. p. 50, 1904; 

 Shelley, B. Africa, iv. p. 362, 1905.) 

 Citmamopteryx, Eeichenow ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 471 (1890); Shelley, 

 B. Africa, iv. p. 356 (1905). 



1. nigerruna (Fifiiff.). (p. 476.) 



(Eeichenow, t. c. p. 50 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 362.) 



W. Africa 



(Camaroons to the 



Congo). 

 E. to Equatorial 



Africa 



(Lake Districts). 



2. gracilirostris, Eeichenow , 3 . f. 0. 1909, p. 108. W. Africa 



(Upper Congo ; 

 Awakubi). 



3. maxwelU, Soj/d Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. W. Africa 



xiii. p. 55 (1903). (Fernando Po). 



(Eeichenow, i. c. p. 52 ; iShelley, i. u. p. 363.) 



4. albinucha {Socage), (p. 477.) 



(Eeichenow, t. o. p. 52 ; Shelley, t. u. p. 364 ) 



W. Africa 



(Liberia to the Niger). 



5. interscapularis (Rekhenow, Om. MB. Equatorial Africa. 



1893, p. 39). 

 (Eeichenow, t. c. p. 63; Shelley, t. c. p. 361.) 



6. fuscocastaneus {Bocage). West Africa 



(Eeichenow, t. c. p. 53.) (Sierra Leone to 



[tricolor (neo Hartl.) (p. 471.) Loango Coast). 



(Shelley, t. c. p. 359, pi. xxiviii.) Equatorial Africa 



nifoniger. Eeiehenow, /. c. p. 53, pi. xiv. (Luke Districts). 



fig. 2 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 359.] 



