NOVITATBS ZOOLOGIOAE XXVIL 1920. 469 



(?) 608. Biadypteros cinnamomeus pallidioi Neum. = Bradypterus cinnamomeus 



pallidior. 

 Bradypterus cinnamomeus paMidior Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1914. p. 10 (" Gebirge westlich dea 

 Tanganyka "). 



Type : $ ad. (not " ^ "), primeval forest west of Baraka, 1,900 m., 1 . xii . 1908. 

 Rud. Grauer leg. No. 3,819. 



This form requires confirmation. The type is very pale, but in the same 

 region we find quite dark birds like cinnamomeus. 



609. Stasiasticus mentis Hart. = Bradypterus montis. 

 Stasiasticus montis Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 540 (1896 — Mt. Arjuno, Eastern Java). 



Type : <?, Mt. Arjuno, 9 — 10,000 feet, January 1896. William Doherty leg. 



It is, in my opinion, absolutely certain that my genus " Stasiasticus " was 

 founded on wrong premises. I compared it with Androphilus and Pseudo- 

 tharraleus, but it is reaUy congeneric with the birds generally called Lusciniola — 

 i.e. thoracica, luteiventris, seebohmi, etc. These latter are, however, inseparable 

 from the African Bradypterus, in every way. They must, therefore, aU be called 

 Bradypterus. The only further question is, whether they can really be united 

 with Lusciniola (type melanopogon), as I did in Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 540, or whether 

 they should be separated as has been done by Gates and Sharpe. I think it will 

 be better to separate them, because Lusciniola melanopogon has the tail less 

 graduated, the wings comparatively longer, the plumage not quite so copious. 

 We would then have : 



Lusciniola with melanopogon and subsp. alone, Bradypterus with brachypterus 

 (genotype), and about 14 other African forms, and pryeri, taczanowskia, luteo- 

 ventris, major, thoracica, seebohmi, montis, russula. 



610. Lusciniola seebohmi Grant = Bradypterus seebohmi. 

 Lusciniola seebohmi Grant, BuU. B.O. Club, iv. p. xl. (1895 — North Luzon). 



Type : $, Province of Lepanto, North Luzon, 28 . xii . 1 894. John Whitehead 

 leg. No. 931. 



611. Bradypterus brachypterus centralis Neum. = Bradypterus brachypterus 



centralis. 



Bradypterus brachypterus centraMs Neumann, BuU. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 55 (1908 — " East and East 

 Central Africa, from Kikuyu to Lake Blivu "). 



Type : $, River bank between Mkingo and Mubera (on the route from 

 Kagera to Kiva), 6.viii.l907. Rud. Grauer leg. No. 950. 



More information about this form is greatly desired. Besides the type there 

 is in the Tring Museum a (J collected by WiUiam Doherty at the Escarpment, 

 Eakuyu Mountains, October 1900, which probably belongs to centralis, with the 

 type locality Kivu region ! 



612. Bradypterus graueri Neum. = Bradypterus graueri. 

 Bradypterus graueri Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 66 (1908 — " Western Kivu Volcanoes "). 



Type and unique specimen : ^, edge of swamp. Western Kivu Volcanoes, 

 2,200 m., 17. viii. 1907. Rud. Grauer leg. No. 991. 



