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that all the remiges are not fully grown, but are almost hiaaen 

 by the tectrices. By unfolding the wings carefully one can see 

 the white distributed in the same style as in our P. cristatus, 

 with which the specimen agrees in every respect. I therefore 

 cannot regard P. hedori as distinct from our P. cristatus 

 (P. australis, Gould). 



Larus (Bruchigavia) melanorhyncha, Buller, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 43. 



If this species is not identical with the badly described Larus 

 andersoni, Bruch (Journ. f. Oru. 1858, p. 102), from New 

 Zealand, which Professor Blasius {op. cit. 1865, p. 384), de- 

 clared to be nothing else than L. scopulinus, it certainly will 

 be a good species. I, at least, cannot refer the fine speci- 

 men, received from Dr. Haast under the name last mentioned, 

 to any of the known species, and take it for a good species, 

 distinguishable by the slender black bill, tinged with reddish 

 at the basal portion, and by the great extent of white on the 

 remiges. 



XXXIV. — On two more Collections of Birds from the Fantee 

 Country. By R. B. Sharpe. 



(Plate XI.) 



Since the publication of my previous paper on the birds of the 

 Fantee country [supra, pp. 186-195) I have been favoured 

 with an inspection of two small collections from the same 

 locality. One of these was submitted to me by Mr. Higgins ; 

 and the other was sent to me by Mr. Whiteiy, of Woolwich. I 

 am informed by the latter that the collection forwarded by him 

 was formed in the interior of the Fantee country, on the borders 

 of Ashantee and Dahomey, while the series sent to me by Mr^ 

 Higgins was collected, as before, in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Cape-Coast Castle. 



The present paper will be found to contain the names of 

 many rare and interesting species ; and it is to be hoped that 

 the collectors on whose labours it is based will be induced to 

 continue their researches, and that ultimately we may become 



