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



Lampribis rara. 



Lampribis vara Hotlisch., Hart., & Kleiiisclini., Nov. Zool. 

 iv. 1897, p. 377 — Type locality : Denkera, Gold Coast. 



Ill 'The Ibis/ 1914, pp. 622-636, I attempted to dis- 

 entangle the confusion into Miiicli Lcmiprilns rara and 

 Lampribis olivacea luul rallcn. 1 then showed that Ibis 

 olivacea Dii Bus ought not to have been confused with 

 L. rara ; and I then accepted the following as the range of 

 these two very distinct species : — 



L. rara. Ashanti, Cameroon, Upper Congo. 



L. olivacea. Prince's Isl., St. Thomas Isl., Cameroon, and 

 the coast of Guinea. 



Further material has induced me to considerably alter the 

 views then expressed with regard to the range of these two 

 birds, but all I wrote as regards the confusion of the two 

 forms I now stand by. My jiaper was apparently overlooked 

 by Dr. Clhapman when in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. xxxi. 

 1912, p. 235, he gives a description of a bird obtained by 

 Du Chaillu on the Muni River, which is obviously a specimen 

 of Lampribis rara, and calls it erroneously Lampribis olivacea, 

 Elliot's wrongly named figure (P. Z. S. 1877, pi. li.) leading 

 him into the same error which I tried to correct in 1914. 



Unfortunately, when 1 wrote about these Ibises in ' The 

 Ibis' (I.e.), I myself overlooked a much more important 

 paper, written by Reichenow (Orn. Monatsber. xi. 1903, 

 pp. 132-136). 



In this paper Reichenow reviews the forms and recognises 

 four (liflerent birds : — 



1. Lampribis rara, from the Gold Coast to Angola. 



2. Lampribis splendidus, from Liberia. 



3. Lampribis cupreipe/mis, from Cameroon. 



4. Lampribis olivaceas, from Prince's Island and 



St. Thomas. 



1. Lampribis kaka. 



Lampribis rara Rothsch., llart., and Kleinschm. 



[Nov. Zool. iv. p. 377. 'J'ype loe. : Denkera, Gold 

 Coast. '^l\ype specimen in the British Museum, 

 collected by Ussher 5/11/71.] 



