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name of Notopholia gen. nov., characterised by its short, broad bill, 
stout and comparatively short tarsi, and smaller size. The beautiful East 
African Starlings commonly placed under Spreo should be given separate 
place in a new genus, Lamprospreo, type Lamprotornis superhus Riippell, 
characterised by their entirely distinct style of colour, smaller size, absence 
of a wattle at the gape and entirely different nesting habits, the typical 
Spreo excavating a hole in a bank in preference, though sometimes using 
a hole in a building, the present genus constructing a nest in a tree, amongst 
the branches. It does not occur within our limits. Pyrrhocheira should be 
retained for a group of the red-winged starlings, which contains species 
that are monomorphous and have the tail differing in shape from that of 
Amydrus. The two genera commonly occur and breed in the same localities 
on the west. Cinnamopterus tenuirostris gracilirostris Neumann {Orn. 
Monatsb. 1903, p. 63) appears to me to be referable to Pyrrhocheira caffra. 
Its precise habitat is stated to be somewhere in South Africa, the specimens 
having been secured by Holub ; I find that Holub records having collected 
Amydrus morio in Rustenburg and as Neumann compares the specimens 
with that species, presumably they are the same specimens. SheUey refers 
Neumann’s name to the synonymy of Amydrus morio ! 
Dicruridae 
Dicrurus afer (Lcht.) is not a tenable name, as pointed out by Ober- 
holser {Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxviii. 919, 1905), as it was not intended to 
be a new name, but was simply a doubtful identification of the bird with 
Corvus afer. Oberholser has also pointed out that the name of divaricata 
Lcht. should be retained for the smaller, northern form of Bhuchanga 
adsimilis (Bechstein) and that it enters our northern limits, so must be 
included in our list. It is clear that the square-tailed species should be kept 
in a separate genus, under Dicrurus. 
Corvidae 
Corvus scapulatus = C. alhus P. L. S. Mull. (cf. Kleinschmidt, Journ. 
Orn. 1906, p. 90). 
Buphagidae 
I am pleased to note that Chapin {Amer. Mus. Nov. No. 17, 1921) has 
given a subgeneric name {Buphagoides) to the Red-billed Oxpecker 
(B. erythrorhynchus) , a course which I had intended to follow, on account 
of the difference of the eyelids. The two species occur widely over the 
continent, often side by side. 
