490 Mr. D. A. Bamiermau on the 



17. Dendropicus lafresnayei. 



Dendropicos lafresnayi iMalb. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, 

 p. 533 : ? Africa. 



a. ? ad. (No. 1). Buea, Caineroon Mt. 10. v. 09. 



Sharpe has separated the Cameroon bird as D. canieru- 

 nensis. So far as I can see from an examination o£ the 

 specimens in the British Museum, the Cameroon race is 

 indistinguishable from typical D. lafresnayei. I notice that 

 Mr. G. L. Bates, who is well acquainted with the birds 

 of southern Cameroon (the type of D. camerunensis was 

 described from the River Ja and obtained by Mr. Bates), 

 does not keep up the name in his paper, ' Ibis,' 1909, p. 21. 

 Mr. Claude Grant was likewise unable to separate the 

 Cameroon bird [vide Ibis, 1915, p. 461). 



[Obtained at Buea, but not found above. — B. A.] 



18. Mesopicus jolinstoni. 



PoRopicus johnstoni Shelley, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 122: 

 Cameroon Mt. (6000 ft.). 



a. S ad. (No. 2). Cameroon Mt. 11. iv. 09. 



b. ? ad. (No. 1). „ „ 29.iii.09. 



c. S ad. (No. 3). „ „ 31.iii.09. 

 <f. c? ad. (No. 5). „ „ l.iv.09. 

 e. ? ad. (No. 4). „ „ 9. iv. 09. 

 /. S imm. (No. 6) „ „ 6. v. 09. 

 ^, /i. cJ c? ad. (Nos. 7, 9). .,, „ 11. v. 09. 

 k. ? ad. (No. 8) „ „ 16. v. 09. 



This species was only represented in the British Museum 

 by two specimens, the types collected by Sir Harry Johnston 

 and described by Shelley in 1887. Shelley pointed out that 

 the species is remarkable for having the underparts uniform 

 in colour without any indication of stripes. The large 

 series which Alexander has now procured bear out the 

 original description. 



The bird is evidently confined to the high forest of the 

 Cameroon Range. 



[Rare in the forest. — B. A.] 



