488 Mr. D. A. Baniierman on the 



a,h. $ % ad. Cameroon Mt. 30. iii. 09. 



Riippell originally described this bii'd '^from an unknown 

 locality." The brothers Verreaux appear to have been the 

 first to assign a habitat to this species, when in the Rev. 

 et Mag. Zool. (op. cit.) they describe under the name 

 T. persa what must undoubtedly have been an example of 

 Turacus meriani; this specimen was obtained in Gaboon. 



In the British Museum there are sixteen examples of this 

 species from the following localities : — Gaboon, Cameroon, 

 Fernando Po_, and Southern Nigeria. 



[Common. — B. A.] 



12. Corythaeola cristata. 



Musophaga cristata Vieill. Analyse, 1816, p. 68 : Africa. 

 a,b. ^ ^ ad. Cameroon Mt. 26. iv. 09. 



13. Gymnobucco calvus. 



Bucco calvus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1841, p. 241 : West 

 Africa. 



a, 6. c? ? ad. (Nos. 1,2). Cameroon Mt. 28. iii. 09. 



c. ¥ ad. (No. 3). „ „ 29. iii. 09. 



d. ? ad. (No. 4). „ „ 10. V.09. 

 When Shelley wrote the Catalogiie of Birds, vol. xix., 



he believed that G.peli and G. calvus were one and the same 

 species. 



G. calvus has been kept distinct by recent writers, and I 

 think this is the more correct view. G. peli has a very 

 prominent frontal tuft of bristles and a smaller bill. Mr. G. 

 L. Bates gives excellent reason for considering the two 

 forms to be distinct {vide Ibis, 1909, p. 17). 



[Pound in the forest near Buea. — B. A.] 



11'. Barbatula leucolaima. 



Barbatula leucolaima Verr. Rev, et Mag. Zool. 1851, 

 p. 263: West Africa. 



a. S (No. 1). Buea, Cameroon Mt. 18. v. 09. 



This specimen is rather larger than usual and has a 

 wing-measurement of 53 mm., thereby approaching examples 



