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Liverpool jMuseum, I have also examined the type, and it 

 is undoubtedly a bird of the southern form and, as stated by 

 Prof. Neumann, must have been procured at Mozambique, 

 where Salt remained some time, see pp. 20-83 of ' Voyage 

 to Abyssinia,' 1814. 



No blue on foreliead ; rump, belly, and under tail-coverts 

 aquamarine ; baud across lower throat medium cobalt-blue ; 

 throat pale cadmium-yellow. 



Range. Anjjola, Damaraland, Namaqualand, Lake Ngami 

 and Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Transvaal, Natal, Portuguese 

 East Africa, Nyasaland, Belgian Congo (Lufupa River) to 

 Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. 



DlCROCEUCUS IIIIIUXDINEUS CIIKVSOLilMUS, 



Merops chrysolahnus Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. vol. ii. 1830, 

 pi. 99 : Sierra Leone. 



In the Bull. Liverp. Mus. vol. ii. 1899, p. 30, Dr. Forbes 

 and Mr. Robinson state that Jardine & Selby's name is 

 ambiguous and " the figure, moreover, is not that of the 

 West African species. '^ 



Li this I think they are wrong, and I agree with Neumann, 

 Bull. H. O. C. xvi. 1906, p. 113, that the plate '' undoubtedly '" 

 represents a bird M'ith a blue forehead ; moreover, Jardine 

 & Selby's type is in the British Museum, was collected at 

 Sierra Leone bj^ a Dr. Ferguson, and bears on the back of 

 the label in Jardiue's handwriting " Authority for PI. 99 in 

 Ornith. lUust." 



Blue band across forehead ; rump, belly, and under tail- 

 coverts more ultramarine ; band across lower throat cobalt- 

 blue ; throat medium cadmium-yellow. 



The young bird has no blue on the foreliead, but when 

 compared with young birds of D. h. hirundineus the rump is 

 found to be of a much deeper blue. 



Range. Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and 

 Nigeria to Lake Chad. 



DiCROCERCUS HIRUNDINEUS HEUGLINI. 



Of this, I consider that D. h. omoensis Neum. (Bull. 

 B. O. C. vol. xvi. 1906, p. 114 : Koscha, Omo River) must 

 become a synonym. 



