1 92 1.] collected in Southern Cameroon. 109 



As tlie authors of this species named Usshei's ])ird 

 from Deiikera, specimens from the (irohl Coast must 

 bear the above name. The bird is figured in P. Z. S. 

 1877, p. 477, pi. liv and tliere erroneously named Ibis 

 olivacea. 



We have only specimens from the Gold Coast, Came- 

 roon, and the Upper Congo in the British Museum ; 

 wiiile Reichenow records it from Gaboon and Angola 

 in addition. 



2. Lampribis splendidus. 



Lampribis splendidus Salvadori, Ibis, 1903, pp. 184-185 — 

 Type locality : Liberia. 



I have not seen specimens of this Ibis, but a complete 

 description of the bird is given by Salvadori [I.e. p. 185). 

 From the description the Liberian bird seems to be more 

 nearly allied to L. olivacea than to the spotted-breasted 

 Ijampribis rara. AVe have no examples of this bird in 

 the British Museum. It may be only a subspecies of 

 Lampribis olivacea. 



[Lampribis cupreipennis. 



Theristicas cupreipennis ReichenoAV, Orn. IMonatsber. xi. 

 1903, p. 134 — Type locality : Cameroon. 



In the 'Ornithologische Monatsberichte ' for 1903, Reiche- 

 now gives a description of a bird which he obtained froui 

 Cameroon, and which he named L. cupreipennis. The 

 description agrees with a bird in the British Museum, which 

 was obtained by Mr. G. L. Bates at Efulen, ( 'ameroon 

 (No. 158), on the 19th of May, 1903, and which in 'The Ibis,' 

 1914, p. G23, I referred to Lampribis olivacea, thinking it 

 might be an immature exam[)le of that Ijird. At first sight, 

 therefore, it would appear that we must call the Cameroon 

 bird Lampribis cupreipennis of Reichenow, but before we 

 accept this name for the uniform-breasted, bronze- winged, 

 short-billed Ibis from Cameroon, let us examine the next 

 species, L. olivacea, mentioned by Dr. Reichenow in his paper 

 (/. c), of which species we shall find that L. cupreipennis is a 

 synonym !] 



