274 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of . 



skin pale blue and lilac ; legs and toes black. Not very 

 plentiful, found frequenting thorn bushes in the desert 

 country.] 



In naming these specimens I, have had to examine the 

 whole series in the National Collection; and can recognise 

 three races of this Hornbill, flhich differ in the characters 

 as given by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant in the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 vol. xvii. 1892, p. 413:— 



LOPHOCEKOS FLAVIKOSTKIS FLAVIROSTRIS Rlipp. Op. cit. 



Rartye. Abyssinia, Somaliland, Uganda, British E. Africa, 

 and German E. Africa. 



In the Journ. fiir Orn. 1894, p. 96, Prof. Reichenow has 

 described an allied species of this Hornbill under the name 

 Lophoceros somaliens'is from Meid, Somaliland, and gives the 

 distinguishing character as the red-coloured under mandible. 

 The two specimens from Somaliland before me, taken 

 respectively at Udveris and Goolis, do not differ from true 

 L. f. flavirostris ; so that at the moment I am quite unable 

 to say "whether the Somali form around Meid is a local race, 

 a distinct species, or whether the name will eventually become 

 a synonym. 



Lophoceros flavirostris leucomelas. 



Bucerus leucomelas Licht. Verz. Vog. Kafferl. 1842, p. 17 : 

 KaflPernland. 



Range. Damaraland, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, 

 Mashonaland, Transvaal to Zululand. 



Lophoceros flavirostris elegans. 



Toccus elegans Hartl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 86, pi. iv. : Ben- 

 guella. 



On the average rather smaller than either L.f. flavirostris 

 or L. f. leucomelas. 



Range. Angola and Loanda. 



145. Lophoceros deckeni. Von der Decken's Hornbill. 



Buceros {Bhynchaceros) deckeni Cab., v. d. Decken, Reisen, 

 vol. iii. pt. 1, 1869, p. 37, pi. vi. : Ost-Afrika, Suaheli- 

 Binnenland, cf. vol. iii. pt. 3, 1879, p. xxii. 



a. (^ ad. S. Giiaso Nyiro, 2900 ft. Nov. 22. 



