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(Verv comnion, often in considérable Hocks in tlie bush near 

 water. In the evenings it was verv fond of sitting along the railway 

 and paths of the compound. I also saw one on the top of an iron 

 shed in the moonlight uttering notes siniilar to our ovvn bird 

 C. europaeus europaens. — W. P. L.) 



Famii.v BUCEROTinAE. 



Bycanistes sharpei sharpei. 



Biiceiûs sharpei Ei.liot, Ibis, 1873, p. 177. — Tvpe localitv : 

 Angola. 



Two spécimens of the VVhite-tailed Hornbill obtained by 

 Mr LowE at the Iju water works must be referred to this species 

 althoiigh thev hâve rather more black on the tail feathers than is 

 usuallv the case with tvpical examples. 



In a récent ninnber of the Bull. B. O. C. (vol. XLÎI, 

 192 1, p. 45). Mr. W. L. ScLATER re-named the bird vi^hich occurs 

 in the Congo district and South eastern Cameroon B. sharpei 

 duboisi dnd discussed its relationship with B. iistiilator . It would 

 appear that the Nigérian birds vvhich I hâve named B. sharpei 

 .s/irt/y^t;/ approach B.fistidator in sonie respects. 

 The two forms and their range are. 



1. — Bycanistes sharpei sharpei. 

 Cf. supra. 



Range. — N. Angola, Gaboon, Western Cameroon, S. Nigeria. 



2. — Bycanistes sharpei duboisi. 



Bycanistes sharpei duboisi W. Sclater, Bull. B. O. C, XLII, 

 192 1, p. 45 : Niam-Niam. 



Syno)i\in. — Buceros leucopygius Dubois {nec Giebel). 



