— 114 — 



Distinguishing characters. — General colour of under-parts 

 brownish, waslied with greenish in cf, yellowish in 9, the brown 

 spots and bars verv indistinct; Te%e\nh\ç<,jlaviptiiictatu>n in having 

 no white evebrows or cheek patch ; throat grey niarked witli 

 brown ; npper-parts brown, blacker on head, the whole finely 

 speckled witii vellow. 



Observation. — Ki-:ichenow's suggestion that this race is the 

 young of T. h. hirstitmn or of anv other form is quite uniounded. 

 It is a perfectly good race. 



5. — Tricholaema hirsutum ansorgei. 



Tricholatma ansorgei Sheli.ey, Bull. B. O. C, V, 1895, p. m. — 

 Type locality : Port Alice, Uganda. 



Range. — Uganda. 



Distinguishing characters. — This bird might easily be confused 

 with T. h. /lybridîun but the upper-parts in the maie are more 

 heavily spotted with vellow; the under-parts not so bright and are 

 less distinctlv spotted with black — the spots being snialler in 

 hybridiuii. In the female ansorgei gtis a yellow spotted head while 

 in hyhridmn it is black. 



Family MUSOPHAGIDAE. 



Turacus persa persa. 



Cuculus persa Linn., Syst. Nat., loth éd., 1758, p. 111. — Type 

 locality : Africa, Guinea (Edward's Nat. Hist. Birds, pi. VII). 



Mr. LowE obtained three spécimens of the Guinea Turaco or 

 Plantain Eater at the Iju water works. It bas not previously been 

 recorded from Southern Nigeria. 



Professor Neumann was the first authoritv to clearly point out 



