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differences, I would place these southern birds in a new genus under the 
name of Notafrapus, type Notafrapus sheppardi spec, nov., char- 
acterised as follows: 
'Size very small, wing length ii6 mm., tail 22, tarsus 7*5, culmen 4*5. Colour, 
upper parts glossy blue-black, the forehead greyer, the rump, base of 
middle upper tailcoverts and tips of tail feathers (not the spines) white; 
lores black, but pure white at the base ; earcoverts dark grey, darker than 
underparts but not so dark as the forehead; underparts from the chest 
to the chin and sides of the neck smoky grey, sometimes with faint shaft 
stripes on the throat; flanks greenish slate-brown; middle of the breast, 
abdomen and under tailcoverts white; thighs black. Type in the Trans- 
vaal Museum, No. 10166, ex collection P. A. Sheppard, Beira, 15 March, 
1910. 
COLIIDAE 
Oberholser (/.c., p. 863) has separated Colius indicus under the generic 
name of Urocolius Bonaparte, with which I agree, this species having the 
outermost primary longer than the secondaries, the tail feathers narrower, 
the nasal cavity quite exposed, large and semicircular and the basal section 
of the maxilla below the nostrils flattened and hardly raised above the 
level of the lores. C. striatus Gmelin should also be separated under the 
name of Rhahdocolius Bonaparte, the main difference being the uniform 
colour of the back. With regard to local races, I cannot, on the available 
material, distinguish damarensis from the typical C. colius of Cape Town. 
C. kirbyi Sharpe is said to be a synonym of C. striatus minor (cf. C. Grant, 
This, 1915, p. 402). 
I am able to distinguish three forms of the Redfaced Coly, as follows : 
A. Forehead ochre-yellowish: Urocolius indicus indicus. 
B. Forehead creamy white: U . indicus lacteifrons Sharpe from Damaraland. 
C. Forehead rich cream colour: U. indicus transvaalensis subspec. nov., 
type from Pretoria, in the Transvaal Museum collection, and also a long 
series from this province. 
Musophagidae 
Turacus corythaix phoehus Neumann [Orn. Monatsh. 1907, p. 198), from 
the eastern Transvaal, is a well marked subspecies and has much the same 
relation to the typical green form as T. reichenowi has to T. livingstonei, 
which occur within our limits in the tropical low-country of the north-east 
(cf. Sclater, This, 1911, p. 737). 
Chizaerhis concolor pallidiceps Neumann, has been recorded by Ogilvie- 
Grant from within our north-western limits (cf. Ibis, 1912, p. 397). Ac- 
cording to Mathews (cf. Austral. Av. Rec. iii. 146, 1918) the name of 
Crinifer Jarocki must be used for this genus. 
CUCULIDAE 
Coccystes Gloger (1842) gives way to Clamator Kaup (1829), type C. 
glandarius L. (cf. Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xv. 37, 1907). 
This group of Cuckoos contains several distinct genera which have only 
a crest to distinguish them in common. The typical species, Clamator 
glandarius, lays large, greenish, speckled eggs, while in itself differs in its 
style of coloration, the first primary as long as the secondaries, the second 
and fifth equal and the third and fourth primaries equal and longest. The 
