284 Mr. D. Bannerman : A Systimatic List [Ibis, 



Kemp, Robin. 1905. 'Ibis; pp. 213-247. [With notes by 



Dr. Bowdler Shai'pe,] 

 Bannerman, David A. 1912. ' Ibis,' pp. 219-268. [An account 



of jNIr. Willougbby Lowe's West African collections 



whilst naturalist on H.M.S. ' Mutine.'] 

 Kelsall, H. J. 1914. ' Ibis,' pp. 192-228. [An account of his 



own collection.] 

 Lowe, Willoughby P. 1921. ' Ibis,' pp. 2(55-282. [An account 



of the l)ir(ls collected on his second trip to iSierra Leone 



on H.M.S. ' Dwarf,' with notes by myself.] 



For the interest of those who haA'e not access to the past 

 numbers of 'The Ibis,' I have prepared a short account 

 of the Avork done by the three most important collectors, 

 Mr. Robin Kemp, Col. II. J. Kelsall, and Mr. W. P. 

 Lowe : — 



Mr. Robin Kemp landed in Sierra Leone on the 7th of March, 

 190.2, and remained there over three years. His collections, 

 which were made in the Mendi country — the south-eastern 

 part of the colony, — comprised 6,20 skins referable to 145 

 species. The majority of the birds were shot at Bo (4.")0 ft.), 

 but quite a uumber at Rotifunk, situated on the Bumpe 

 River, much nearer Freetown and tie coast. The Mendi 

 country is described as being '' entirely covered with busli 

 or small forest broken here and there by rice-farms and 

 swamps, and has six large rivers flowing in a southerly 

 direction.'' Kemp's birds are now in the British Museum. 



Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe was the next collector to visit 

 Sierra Leone. He stayed there from the 28th of Jauuarv 

 to the 6th of Februar\% 1911, and again from the 7th to the 

 12th of March of the same year, when naturalist on board 

 li.M.S. ' Mutine,' at the invitation of Captain Hardy, R.N. 

 During these two short visits Mr. Lowe secured 60 dif- 

 ferent species of birds. Tliese and the rest of Mi'. Lowe's 

 collection, made during the voyage of the 'Mutine,' Avere 

 worked out by myself, and the results published iu ' The 



