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Range. — rortujfuese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold 

 Coast, Togoland, N. and S. Xit(eria, Caineroon, Gaboon, Congo 

 river Moiitli. 



Famu.v UPUlMDAE. 



Phoeniculus (Irrisor) bollei bollei. 



Il iisor hullci Hakti.., |i)urn. Orn., 1S58, p. 445. — Tvpe localitv : 

 Ashantee, Gold Coast. 



Tiie présent collection contains a séries of seven examples of 

 Boi.i.e's White-headed Wood-Hoopoe , ail obtained at tlie Ijn 

 water works. 



Range. — Hitherto this West African species was represented 

 in the Hritisli Mnsenm onlv troin the Gold Coast '\2 skins) and a 

 single example probablv of this species from the Ubangiii river, 

 French Congo (cf. C. Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 288). 



Observation. — Onlv one race besides the tvpical West African 

 form is described so far, P. bollei jacksoni îxovn Kenva Colonv 

 and L'ganda. 



(A very coinmon bird, several often found together in the tops 

 of Palm tVees. — W. P. L.) 



Phoeniculus (Irrisor) erythrorhynchus ^uineensis. 



In isor ci ythorhynchus gnineensis KcHW., Orn. .Monatsber., 1902, 

 p. 79. — Tvpe localitv : Portngnese Gninea to the Niger. 



A single example of what I consider to be I'. e. gniiieeiisis was 

 obtained at the water works, Iju. It is the tirst record from 

 Sonthern Nigeria of the Guinea Wood-Hoopoe. Reichknow 

 correctly separated this race from tvpical P. erxthrorliynchus 

 erytlirorhynchns from vSouth west and South east Africa and in his 

 Vogel Afi ikas, II, p. 340 kept it perfectlv distinct from P. seiie- 



