NOVITATBS ZoOLOaiOAB XXVII. 1920. • 483 



f 714. Ifiita coronata Rothsch. = Ifrita howaldi. 



Todopais howaldi De Vis, Report on B.from Brit. New Gfuinea, p. 3 (1889 — ^Mts. Brit. New Guinea). 

 Ifrita coronata Rothschild, BuU. B.O. Ghib, vii. p. liv. (1898 — " Low country east of Port Moresby " ? 



Probably wrong, inhabits only fairly high elevations in the mountains !) Figured : Nov. Zool. 



1899. pi. iii. fig. 1. 



Tjrpe : " Low country east of Port Moresby " — error e ! Must be Owen 

 Stanley Mts. Bought, apparently collected by some prospector or native. 



Professor Oscar Neumann caUed my attention to the fact that Todopsis 

 howaldi is an earlier name for Ifrita coronata. There is no doubt about it, but it 

 is inconceivable why, and a bad misjudgment to even compare Ifrita with the 

 genus Todopsis ! It makes study very difficult and causes loss of time and 

 errors if birds are described in entirely wrong genera. 



715. Bathmocercus vulpinus Rchw. = Bathmocercus rufus vulpinus ^. 



Bathmocercus vulpinus Reichenow, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 160 (1895 — ^Aruwimi River). 



Type : (J ad., Aruwimi River, Eastern Congo basin. W. Bonny leg., 

 member of Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (Rear Column). 



f 716. Bathmocercus murinus Rchw. = Bathmocercus rufus mdpinus^. 

 Bathmocercus mv/rinus Reichenow, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 160 (1895 — ^Aruwimi River). 



Type : ? ad., Aruwimi River. W. Bonny leg. 



It is now well known that the greyish specimens are the females, the rufous 

 ones the males. Reichenow was in error when {Vog. Afr. iii. p. 742) he placed 

 B. jachsoni as a synonym of B. rufus rufus. B. jaclcsoni is, however, probably 

 a synonym of B. rufus vulpinus, but more Aruwimi specimens are desirable for 

 comparison. Specimens from west of Lakes Albert Edward and Tanganjdka, 

 Toro, and North Kavirondo (Grauer, van Someren, and Meinertzhagen coll.) 

 agree inter se, and, I think, with the Aruwimi specimens, which, however, are 

 bad skins. 



717. Ftyrticus turdinus Hartl. = Ptyrticus turdinus. 



Ptyrticm turdinus Hartlaub, Zoolog. Jahrb. ii. p. 315 (1887 — Tomaja, Mombuttu). 



Type : ? ad., Tomaja. Emin Pasha leg. 



This very interesting bird remained unique, untU it was rediscovered by the 

 late Boyd Alexander. 



718. LioptOus rufocinctus Rothsch. = Lioptilus rufocinctus. 

 LioptihiB rufocinctus Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 6 (October 1908 — Rugege forest, S.B. of 

 Lake Kivu). 



Type : "?" ad., Rugege forest, S.E. of Lake Kivu, 16.xii.l907. Rudolf 

 Grauer leg. . 



f 719. Turdinus pyrrhopterus Mvuensis Neum. = Malacocincla pyrrhoptera. 

 Turdinus pyrrhopterus kivuensis Neumann, Bull. B.O. Clvh, xxi. p. 55 (1908— Kivu Volcanoes). 



Type: "?" ad., Mt. Sabjingo, Kivu Volcanoes, 2,700 m., 30.viii.l907. 

 Rudolf Grauer leg. No. 1,128. 



