lOi Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 



the west. The tive beautiful sidus in Mr. Bates's preseut 

 collectiou show the blue superciliar}' stripe very distinctly. 



With the material avaihible 1 do not feel inclined to accept 

 Mearns's name for the East African race wiiich that ornitho- 

 logist considered separable from the typical race. 



The range of M. v. variegatus seems to be as indicated by 

 Mr. C. Grant in his paper quoted. 



Eurystomus gularis neglectus. 



Eurystonms gularis neglectus Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 

 xvi. 1908, p. .'iS — Type locality : Canhoca, Angola ; Bates, 

 Ibis, 1911, p. 510. 



Eurystomus gularis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 606. 



Having compared the series of E. gularis in the British 

 Museum, I agree that the t\vo races must be recognised. 

 In the series before me the distribution seems to be as 

 follows : — 



E. gularis gularis. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Northern 

 Nigeria. 



E. g?daris neglectus. Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, 

 Angola, Belgian Congo. 



E. g. neglectus are certainly more violet-coloured on tlie 

 under surface than typical specimens, and most of the ten 

 specimens examined have a distinct violet wash on the basal 

 lialf of the two middle tail-feathers, although, as instanced 

 by specimen No, 3262 and pointed out by Mr. Bates himself 

 (Ibis, 1911, J). 606), this character is not always present. 



Agapornis Zenker i. 



Agupornis zenkeri Eeichw. Orn. Monatsber. 1895, p. 19 — 

 Type locality : Yaunde, Cameroon ; Shai'pe, Ibis, 1904, 

 p. 605 ; Bates, ibis, 1905, p. 89. 



The present collection contains three examples of this 

 little Parrot [Nos. 4285, 4290, and 5496], which Mr. Bates 

 tells us (Ibis, 1911, p. J97) were shot amongst otliers "with 

 bows and arrows." Specimens of this Parrot liave been 

 obtained by jNIr. Bates in Cameroon at Efulen and at Bitye, 

 River Ja. Reiehenow (Yiigel Afiikas, ii. p. 19) gives only 



