248 NOVITATEa ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



including the crown, which consists of real long, narrow feathers, not webless and 

 wire-like as iu the adult bird, is deep ochraceous buff ; the feathers of the neck are 

 dull slate-black with pale ochraceous buff edges. These remains show that the 

 bird, which is very nniuerons, and occurs in great flocks, breeds in Hausaland. 



In the Cat. B. xxiii., in Reichenow's Vog. Afr. i. p. 204, and in Mr. Blaauw's 

 " Monograph of the (!ranes," good descriptions are given, but no mention is made 

 of the difference in size of the sexes. The females are apparently very considerablv 

 smaller than the males. 



I may say that I doubt Tristram's ^statement that he saw a Uraue of this 

 species iu Algeria ; mistakes are so easily made when seeing a bird from a great 

 distance, that the occurrence of a tropical bird in countries north of the Sahara 

 cannot be accejited from the evidence of a bird believed to have been seen once. 

 Of course nobody believes nowadays that the species ever occurred on the 

 Balearic Isles. 



28. Threskiornis aethiopicus aethiopicus fLath.) 

 One without date, Zaria. The Ibis is common in Hausaland. 



29. Anastomus lamelligerus lamelligerus (Temm.) 



Two fine adult birds from Zaria. 



In the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 309 Sharpe dismissed .1. lamelligerus 

 tnnr/agascarie/isis Milne-Edwards as indistinguishable ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i. 

 p. 336, placed the latter as a synonym without discussion. It seems to me that 

 what Milne-Edwards said is true — viz. that the Madagascar race, when adult, has 

 wider, more regular striations on the sides of the beak, and that it is generally 

 larger, though this apjiears not to be absolutely constant. Therefore ^1. lamelligerus 

 maclagascariensis must not be dismissed without further investigations. 



1 ad., Zaria. 



ad., Zaria. 



30. Leptoptilus crumenifer (Less.) 

 31. Ciconia ciconia ciconia (L.) 



32. Nycticorax uycticorax nycticorax (L.) 



1 6 ad., Zaria, 22. iv. 1913. 



33. Butorides striatus atricapillus (Afzol.) 



2 ? ? ad., Zaria, 8., 9. x. 1912. " Eyes yellow." 



34. Ardea purpurea purpurea (L.) 

 1 juv., Zaria. 



35. Ardea melanocephala (Vig. and Children) 

 lad., Zaria. 



36. Ardea goliath (Cretzschm.) 

 One fine adnlt bird, Zaria. 



