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graphical distribution shown. [L. mollis, Eversm., is accidentally omitted,
cf. Ann. N. H. (4) xvii. p. 78.]
Lanius hemileucurus, Finsch & Hartl., L. fallax (Zool. Rec. vi. p. 77), and
L. dealbatus are identified with L. lahtora.
Lanius fallax (ut supra) figured. 0. Finsch, Tr. Z. S., vii. p. 249, pi. 25.
Lanius hemileucurus (cf. supril) described as a new species. O. Finsch &
G. Hartlaub, Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 329.
Lanius icaldeni is described and figured as a new species from Szechuen, but,
in a footnote, identified with L. magnirostris (Zool. Rec. iv. p. 98). R. Swinhoe,
P. Z. S. 1870, p. 131, pi. xi.
Telephonus longirostris, Sw., is Le Vaillant's " Tchagra," and therefore
synonymous with T. tschagra (Vieill). E. L. Layard, Ibis, 1870, p. 460.
Telephonus anchietce is a new species from Angola. J. V. B. du Bocage,
Jorn. Sc. Lisb. ii. p. 344.
Laniarius monteiri is a new species from Angola, allied to L. icterus, but
with a broad white eyebrow. Both are figured. R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870,
p. 148, pi. xiii.
Laniarius sticturus and L. salimce are new species: the first, from Zambesia,
resembling L. major and L. rufiventris, but having the two outer rectrices
tipped with white; the second, from Zanzibar, resembling L. affinis, but with
the outer webs of the wing-coverts white. These, as well as L. funebris and
L. orientalis, are figured, and a synopsis of the genus given. O. Finsch & G.
Hartlaub, Orn. Ost-Afr. pp. 341-358, pis. iv. fig. 2, v. figs. 1-3.
Dryoscopus thamnophilus (Zool. Rec. vi. p. 77) is believed to be an American
species belonging to the genus Thamnophilus, and not African at all. lid.
torn. cit. p. 358.
Nicator is a new name for a genus (=Meristes, Bp., 1854, nee Reichenb.
1850), the type of which is Lanius chloris, Valenc.; and N. gularis, from the
Zambesi, is a new species like Laniarius peli, Bp., the buff chin, throat, and
sides of the head excepted. lid. torn. cit. pp. 359-361.
Rhopophilus is the name of a new genus, nearly allied to Laniellus, but not
yet characterized! The type is Drymceca (?) pekinensis [Zool. Rec. v. p. 87],
H. H. Giglioli & T. Salvadori, Ibis, 1870, p. 187.
CAMPEPHAGIDjE.
Ceblepyris major is a new species from Madagascar, allied to C. cana, but
larger and the rectrices whiter. R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 389.
Campephaga anderssoni was described as new, but is C. pectoralis, §. Id.
torn. cit. pp. 69,70, pi. iv.; Ibis, 1870, pp. 432,433.
Volvocivora saturata is a new species from Hainan, smaller, darker, and
shorter-winged than V. lugubris. R. Swinhoe, torn. cit. pp. 242-244.
Clytorhynchus is a new genus of Pachycephalince, holding to them the same
relation that Xenopirostris does to Laniidce. The type is
Clytorhynchus pachycephaloides, sp. n., from New Caledonia. D. G.
Elliot, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 242, pi. xix.
MUSCICAPIDJE.
Glaucomyias sordida is a new species from Ceylon. Ld. Walden, Ann. N.
H. (4) v. p. 218.
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