324 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on 



my ' Hand-list of Birds ' (vol. iv. p. 233) appears a note 

 from Pastor Kleinschmidt suggesting that Lobornis alexandri 

 would turn out to be a young Parmoptila. I do not know 

 whence Mr. Kleinschmidt drew his inspiration^ but it turns 

 out to be a happy one, for I think that there can be no 

 question of the correctness of his suggestion, and Lobornis 

 alexandri must be united to Parmoptila woodkousei. It may 

 be, of course, that L. alexandri is the young of Parmoptila 

 rubrifrons (Sharpe & Ussher), but that we cannot determine 

 until we get adult birds from Old Calabar. 



[No. 410 had white wattles at the corners of its mouth. 

 A nest, said to be that of this bird, had in it four small 

 round white eggs, measuring 10x13 millimetres. They 

 were nearly ready to hatch, and the young birds in them had 

 the same kind of white wattles as the specimen referred to. 

 The nest was a large dome-shaped pile of dried leaves and 

 grass, lined with fine fibres of dry plantain-leaves, with an 

 entrance at the side. It was nearly 200 millimetres high, 

 but the width of the entrance was only 50 mm. — G. L.B.] 



Pholidornis rushi^. 



Pholidornis rushice (Cass.) ; Sharpe, Hand-1. B. iv. p. 233; 

 Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 529. 



No. 458. Ad. River Ja, March 1904. Skinned by a 

 native. 



No. 1440. ? ad. River Ja, Feb. 20, 1906. 



Nos. 1781, 1782. S ? ad. River Ja, June 20, 1906. 



No. 1868. $ ad. River Ja, July 27, 1905. 



This is the true P. rushice of Gaboon, and I find that 

 P. bedfordi of Fernando Po is scarcely distinct. The Gold 

 Coast birds are certainly different, and Dr. Hartert is correct 

 in naming the species Pholidornis ussheri. The streaks on 

 the throat and chest are much broader and darker in the 

 Camaroon bird, and the yellow of the abdomen seems to 

 extend higher up over the chest. The nestling has no streaks 

 on the throat, which is ashy white, the chest greyish, and 

 the breast and abdomen paler than in the adult and more 

 sulphur-yellow. The rump and upper tail-coveits are also 



