— 126 — 



wings bright chestnut ; underparts bull aiul wliite; liead and nape 

 dark green ; upper tail-coverts and central pair tail feathers green. 



2. — Centropus senegalensis aegyptius. 



Cnculiis aegyptius Gmel., Svst. Nat., I., 1788, p. 420 : Et^vpt. 



Range. — Egypt. 



Di'itinguishing characters — Larger. For otiier cliaracters see 

 C. Grant, Ibis, 19 15, p. 423. 



3. — Centropus senegalensis flecki. 



Ceiitropîis Jlecki R-EiCHw . , O. M., 1893, p. 84: Nukana, N. Bechua- 

 naland. 



Range. — Rhodesia (Mashonaland, Matabeleland), Lake Nvasa, 

 Lake Nganii, Zambesi. 



Distingiiishing characters. — See C. Grant, Ibis., 19 15, p. 423. 



(In Southern Nigeria this Coucal is the common «bush-fowl» of 

 the countrv. It is often shot as gamel It feeds on grassnoppers. — 

 \V P. L.) 



Centropus leiicogaster leucogaster. 



Pohphilus leucogaster Leach, ZooI. Mise, I, 1814. ]■>. 117, 

 pi. LU. — lype locality : « New HoUand ». Errore. Substi- 

 tute : Gold Coast(\V. !.. Sci.ater). 



Two spécimens of the Black-throated Coucal were obtained by 

 Mr. Lowe at the Ijii water works, Keichenow ( T'ci^. .-^/O., II, p. 71) 



records it also froni Calabarin S. Nigeria, and Nei'mann (in M. S.) 

 from Lagos (Mann), Degama and Ananibara Creek. 



This species which used to be labelled C francisci Br. in the 

 British Muséum collection niust now be named as above, C fran- 



