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



from a spirit specimen, and this accounts for tlie pale 

 coloration of the underparts. A specimen of A. n. con- 

 stantia in the British Museum that has been skinned from 

 spirit agrees perfectly in tlie coloration of the underparts 

 with Dubois' figure in the ' Synopsis Avium,' 1902, pi. ii, 

 and convinces me that preservation in spirit of wine has 

 been the cause of 'j'emoving the always evanescent red pig- 

 ment and turned it to the colour described and figured by 

 Dubois. Therefore H. rufirentre becomes a synonym of 

 A. n. narina. 



174. Turacus schalowi marungensis. Mannigu Long- 

 crested Plantain-eater. 



Turacus livingstonii marunr/ensis Reich w. Vog. Afr. vol.ii. 

 1902, p. 52 : Marungu, west of Lake Tanganyika. 



a, 6. (J ? ad. Amala River, 5300 & 5500 ft. Oct. 13 

 &21. 



Total length in flesh : (^ 15^ inches; ? 16^ inches. 

 Wing : c? 178 mm. ; $ 169 mm. 



Both are in quite good dress ; the female having much 

 more blue on the long feathers of the crest than has the 

 male ; the latter is in moult in the wings and tail, and shows 

 that the tail fades slightly into a purpUsh tone. 



[Irides brown ; eyelids red; bill red ; legs and toes black. 

 Common and nesting.] 



In naming these two birds I have had to examine the 

 large series in the British Museum, combined with the mono- 

 graph by Prof. Neumann of Turacus Uvingstonii livingstonii 

 and allies in the Nov. Zool. vol. xv. 1908, pp. 376-378, and 

 through the kindness of Mr. Rothschild and Dr. Hartert I 

 have had the loan of their specimens from Tring, including 

 the type of T. I. loitanus. 



On laying out the series it becomes at once apparent that 

 these birds can be divided into two well defined groups by 

 the form of the crest, one group having the crest compara- 

 tively short and graduated from the poll to the tip (text- 

 fio-. 6 A), and the other having the crest comparatively 



