96 Mr. D. A. Bannernian o??. rare Birds [Ibis, 



Museum. There are now three birds in the collection 

 obtained by Mr. Bates on the Kiver Ja. No. 4220 has 

 already been recorded by Mr. Bates (/. c). It has a 

 remarkably mottled appearance, due to the feathers of the 

 crown^ mantlcj greater and .lesser coverts, primaries and 

 secondaries, upper tail-coverts and tail ])eing; broadly tipped 

 with white. The adult bird is uniformly coloured blackish 

 brown on the entire upper parts. As Mr. Bates has already 

 remarked, the bird, though in such spotted plumage, is not 

 very young — the wing measures 220 mm. — and had evidently 

 itself caught the numerous insects which were contained in 

 its stomach. 



Pachycoccyw validus ranges from British East Africa 

 south to Nyasaland, across the Belgian Congo to Came- 

 roon, Gaboon, and northern Angola. It has also been 

 obtained in two widely separated localities in the late 

 German Togoland according to Reichenow. 



Chrysococcyx flavigularis. 



Chrijsococcy.v jiaviyidaris Shelley, P. Z. S. 1879, p. G79, 

 p], 50 — Type locality: Gold Coast; Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, 

 p. 437 ; Bates, Ibis, 1911, p. 502. 



Mr. Bates's collection contains four more examples of 

 this extremely rare Golden Cuckoo, all obtained dnring the 

 month of December in 1908, 1913, and 1914. Two are 

 females, but the sex of tlie other two has been ascertained 

 as males. In plumage they closely resemble the female, and 

 must therefore be young birds, as the adult male is a very 

 distinct-looking bird. There is no indication of the yellow 

 throat in either specimen, the entire under surface being 

 narrowly barred as in the female. 



Cercococcyx mechowi wellsi. 



Cercococcyx mechoivi wellsi Bannerman, Bull. B. O. C. xl. 

 1919, p. 7 — Type locality : River Ja, Cameroon. 



Cercococcyx mechowi Sharpe, Ibis, 1907. p. 436; Bates, 

 Ibis, 1909, p. 15. 



This race of Mechow's Cuckoo has been named by me in 



