15. LOPiiocjiKos. 405 



a. Ad. sk. North bank of Congo. Spencer Shield, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. ,sk. Elobe district, Gaboon. H. AnseU, Esq. [P.]. 



c. d. Ad. sk. Gaboon ( Walker). Sharpe Coll. 

 e. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains, Sharps Coll. 



Feb. {Crossley), 



/, //. Ad. sk. Fautee {Aubinn). Sharpe Coll. 



/(, i. Ad. sk. Fantee (C/ssy^er). Sharpe Coll. 



k. Ad. sk. Fantee ( Usshei-). Shelley Coll. 



l. Ad. St. Ashantee. Gould Coll. 



m. Ad. sk. Ashantee. Godfrey Lagden, Esq. [P.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Sassa, Nyani-nyam, Oct. Dr. F. IBohudortf [C.]. 



7. Lophoceros hempriclii. 



Buceros (Lophoceros) hemprichii, Ehrenb. Symb. Fhjs. Ac. fol. aa, 



footnote .3 (18i>8). 

 Toccus hemprichi, Blcmf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 326 (1870) ; Antin. 



e Sali-ad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. p. 417 (1873) ; iid. Cat. Ucc. p. 54 



(1873) ; Elliot, Mon. Bucerot. pi. 52 [text] (1877) ; 8ulmd. Ann. 



Mus. Civ. Genov. p. 103 (1884) ; Hartert, Cat. Mus. Senckenb. 



Frankf. p. 139 (1891). 

 Buceros hemprichi, Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. viii. p. 317 (1870) ; 



Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 721 & civ (1871); Dress. ^' Blanf. 



Ibis, 1874, p. 338. 

 Alophius hemprichii, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Bdy. iii. p. 215 (1884). 

 Lophoceros hemprichi, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 00. 

 Buceros limbatus, liiq'j)- Faun. Abyss., Voy. p. 5, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1835) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 400 (1847) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, i. Buceros, 



p. 13 (1802) ; Heuyl. J.f. 0. p. 270 (1864) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. 



p. 279(1870) 

 Tockus limbatus, Biij^j}. Syst. Uebers. Voy. N.O.-Afr. p. 79 (1845) ; 



Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 92 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. Ind. Co. ii. p. 596 (1856-58) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 9 



Grammicus limbatus, Bonap. Co?isp. I'ol. Anis. p. 3 (1854). 

 Lophoceros limbatus. Cub. i^- Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 168 (1860). 



Adult male. Head, feathered parts of throat, neck, chest, least 

 wing-coverts, back, and rump dark brown, some of the feathers on 

 the sides of the head with whitish ends ; inner side of sliouklcrs, 

 breast, and rest of underparts white ; median and greater Aving- 

 coverts, scapulars, quills, middle, second, and fifth pairs of tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, white at the base, and mostly margined 

 with white, widest on the wing-coverts; third and fourth pairs of 

 tail-feathers white ; naked skin round the eye and on the nnfeathered 

 parts of the throat black : bill dull red, whitish on the basal part of 

 the uj)per mandible. Total length 25 inches, wing 11"7, tail 10"5, 

 tarsus i'O. 



Adult female. Eesembles adult male, but naked skiu on the nn- 

 feathered parts of the throat yello\Aish. 



Immature bird differs from the adult in having the basal part of 

 the third and fourth pairs of tail-feathers mixed with black, the 

 white edging to the secondaries and coverts wider; the naked skiu 

 round the eye and on the throat is yellowish. 



Hah. N.E. Africa. 



