86 Sir W. Jardine on some Birds from Western Africa. 



Caprimulgus [Macrodypterix) longipennis. River Bonny. 



Hirundo rustica. In moult, but apparently not differing from 

 European specimens. Old Calabar river. 



Merops Cuvierii. Old Calabar river. 



Halcyon senegalensis, Linn. River Bonny. 



Halcyon cine^-eifrons, Vieill. {H. torquatus, Swain., Birds of W. 

 Africa) . River Bonny. 



Alcedo carulea, Kuhl {Todier de juida, Buff.). This very inter- 

 esting bird has the form and colouring of the true kingfishers, 

 the bill only being more depressed and v^^idened at the base, so 

 much so as to have gained ior it the name of "Blue Tody"; 

 but although in this structure and also in its habits it ap- 

 proaches to Halcyon, yjq would place it on the confines of 

 Alcedo. 



Riippell met with this species in the province of Temben in 

 Abyssinia pretty abundantly, frequenting light brushwood, and 

 there feeding chiefly on insects. Its distribution therefore will 

 extend to the very opposite coasts of the continent. Old Calabar 

 river. 



Alcedo cristata. River Bonny. 

 Ceryle rudis. River Bonny. 

 Buceros fasciatus. Old Calabar river. 

 Ardeola thalassina. Old Calabar river. 



TiGRisoMA LEUCOLOPHA, Whitc-crested Tiger-Bittern. 

 The crown of the head and occiput are adorned with a narrow 

 white crest extending a short way down the nape, concealed an- 

 teriorly by the black feathers of the forehead, which are elon- 

 gated and lie over the white when the crest is not erected. The 

 neck and breast are clothed with the loose standing-back feathers 

 seen in the bitterns and birds of the present form. The ground 

 colour of these is a deep blackish brown, each feather distinctly 

 barred with yellowish brown : those on each side of the crest being 

 of a deeper general tint and more narrowly banded, relieve the 

 pure white feathers. Along the front of the neck and on the 

 breast there are a few broad elongated feathers, entirely blackish 

 brown on the one side, yellowish brown on the other, and having 

 the line of the shaft marked by a conspicuous white stripe ; the 

 back^ scapulars and wing-covers are of a deep rich brown, barred 

 on the first and second with a rich shade of yellowish brown, on 

 the last broadly and with a paler tint ; quills and secondaries 

 nearly black tipped with white; tips of the inner wing-covers 

 broadly margined with white, which forms a light-coloured band 



