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the presence of 91 West-African species. It is evident that 
these have extended their range through the wood-region of 
the great Congo Valley, and so have become mixed with the 
Eastern forms. 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant deals with these 385 species in syste¬ 
matic order, giving the necessary references, a list of the 
specimens and their exact localities, and the field-notes of 
the collectors, distinguished by their initials. Critical 
remarks on the nomenclature and on the allied species 
are added when required. We are pleased to see that our 
author has not found it necessary to use trinomials in any 
case in this long list of names. 
The extraordinary noise made by the Broad-billed Fly¬ 
catchers of the genus Smithornis, first described by Mr. Bates 
as heard in Cameroon, was also noted by Mr. Woosnam, 
who calls it “ the most remarkable note of a bird that he had 
ever heard 99 {op. cit. p. 401). It is a “kind of jar, some¬ 
thing like the sound made by the Greater Spotted Wood¬ 
pecker when hammering on a dead branch/' Mr. Woosnam 
mentions it as occurring in the case of three different species 
of the genus— Smithornis camerunensis , S. rufolateralis, and 
S. sharpei. 
Only one new species appears to be first described in this 
memoir. This is Cinnyris kempi [op. cit. p. 329). The 
others were all shortly characterised in different numbers of 
the Bull. B. O. C. 
The following 28 birds are beautifully figured in the 
plates which accompany this memoir :— 
Malimbus fagani, Spermospiza poliogenys, Pyromelana 
crassirostris, Neisna nyansce, Nesocharis ansorgii, Crypto - 
spiza salvadorii, Pytelia belli, Nectarinia dartmouthi , Crypto- 
lopha alpina , Pholidornis denti, Anthoscopus roccatii, Sylviella 
denti, Anthus leggei, Erythrocercus congicus, Apalis affinis, 
Apalis denti, Apalis ruwenzorii , Alethe woosnami, Alethe 
carruthersi, Bradypterus alfredi , Cossypha archeri , Brady - 
pterus barakce, Phyllanthus czarnikuwi , Bleda woosnami , 
Trochocercus bedjordi, Batis diops, Chloropeta gracilirostris, 
and Tarsiger ruwenzorii. Plate xix. is devoted to the eggs 
