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dark grey, and an eyebrow of buffish-white from tbe base of tbe bill, 
carried on to tbe temporal region ; cbin white ; throat whitish, strongly 
washed with orange-brown. Flanks grey. Wings like that of B. capensis 
female. Length, 110 ; wing, 59 ; tail, 35 ; bill, 12. 
Professor Reichenow asked me to compare these birds with the 
description of B. erythropthahna of Swynnerton before describing, with 
which, however, it cannot be confused, as I have already shown ; 
Swynnerton in his description distinctly stating that his bird resembles 
B. capensis, differing only in size and in the coloration of the iris, while 
my bird differs considerably from B. capensis. 
SHEPPARDIA, gen. nov. 
Resembling Bradornis in the narrower bill (6 -25 mm. broad at base), 
tail shorter than the wing and nearly square (only the outer feather on 
either side hardly a mm. shorter than the others) ; differing from that 
genus in that the fourth to sixth primaries are the longest, the second 
longer than the eighth ; rictal bristles well developed, reaching to within 
5 mm. of the tip of the bill. 
SHEPPARDIA GUNNINGI, sp. nov. 
Male. Upperside olive-brown, greyer on the head and rustier on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts. A white eyebrow from the base of the till 
behind the nostrils, till beyond the eye. Lores and ear-coverts greyer. 
Under surface ochre ous- orange or pale orange-rufous; the centre of the 
body from the lower-breast to the under tail-coverts white, the latter 
slightly tinged with yellowish. Thighs grey. LTpper wing-coverts slate- 
grey, the median shaded and edged with olive. Remiges brown, the first 
six or seven being edged with grey, and the remainder with rusty olive. 
Under wing-coverts whitish, tipped with pale yellow, those along the 
outer edge of the wing grey. Bill dark brown above, and tip of lower 
mandible ; base of lower pale horn. Tail brown, the feathers edged with 
rusty olive on the outer web. Length, 130; wing, 70-5; tail," 46 *75 ; 
bill, 13; tarsus, 19. Type in Transvaal Museum. Male; Mzimbiti, near 
Beira. 5th January, 1908. Collector : P. A. Sheppard. 
This bird, which in general coloration resembles the Callene cyorni- 
thopsis of Sharpe (Bull. B.O.C. XII, 1901 and Ibis, 1902, p. 95, plate 4), 
and which I at first took for C. sharpei or C. aequatorialis, differs from 
these birds in its almost square tail, and in not agreeing with Reich enow’s 
diagnosis of the generic character : “ Schnabel seitlich zusammen 
gedrueckt,” whereas this bird has a flatter bill, resembling that of Bra- 
dornis , but a little more slender. Dr. Reichenow has kindly examined 
the skin for me, and says that in his opinion it is certainly a “ Musicapide.” 
From cyornithopsis it differs in having only the centre of the abdomen 
white, thereby resembling Jackson’s aequatorialis , but differing from 
the. latter in the colour of the under tail- coverts, which in aequatorialis 
are “ orange-rufous ” (cf. Bull. B.O.C. CXXI, January, 1906, p. 46). 
From both of the just mentioned species gunningi is further distinguished 
by its white eyebrow, and from these, as well as sharpei , by its grey upper 
wing- eo verts. 
