28(i Mr. D. Bannermau : A Si/stemutlc List [Ibis, 



Mr. Willoughby Lowe's second collection was made in the 

 spring o£ last year (1920), mainly on the islands of the 

 Rokelle River, when the guest of Commander Dane, R.N., 

 as naturalist on board H.M.S. 'Dwarf.' 



This collection, -which I had the opportunity of working 

 out, comprised 207 skins, representing 118 species and 

 subspecies, including 32 birds new to the colony, and forms 

 the basis of Mr. Lowe's paper published in the current 

 number of 'The Ibis' {cf. pp. 265-282). 



Commander Dane has generously presented the birds 

 obtained to the Natural History Museum, where they form 

 a most valuable addition to our West African collections. 



In the following pages I have attempted to bring up to 

 date the list of birds known to have occurred in the Sierra 

 Leone Protectorate, somewhat on the lines of Professor 

 Neumann^s List of Birds of the Lower Senegal Region 

 {cf. Journ. Oruith. lxv. vol. ii. 1917, pp. 189-213.) 



The specific or subspecific name of the race to which the 

 form is now supposed to belong is given in full, together 

 with the author of the name used. Following this are the 

 names of the collectors who have actually obtained the birds 

 against which the names are placed. 



With the exception of Afzelius, Kemp, Kelsall, and 

 W. P. Lowe, the other collectors mentioned have only 

 obtained a few odd birds, which have either been noticed 

 casually (as, for instance, those of Dr. Fergusson) in such 

 works as ' The Catalogue of the Birds in the Collection of 

 Sir William Jardine,' or by C-assin or Fraser, who, in the 

 various publications to which they contributed (vide List 

 of Literature), usually mentioned the source from which 

 their Sierra Leone birds had been obtained, and thus gave 

 a clue to the actual collectoi' of the birds described 

 by them. Other collectors' names, again, have sim|)ly been 

 copied from labels of Sierra Leone Ijinls in the British 

 Museum Collection. 



Lowe i. following a bird's name in the List signifies that 



