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4. — Psitt Acus erithacus megarhynchus. 



Psittacus er\thacus nicgarhynchus Hartert, Kat. Senckenberg. 

 Mus. i8c)i, p. 157 : Congo. 



Range. — Belgian Congo. 



Distinguishiiig characters. — Said to hâve a larger bill than 

 examples from Upper Giiinea. 



Note. — This race is not accepted by Sclater, Reichenow or 

 Neumann. 1 bave not seen anv more material and only mention it 

 hère so that future workers shall not overlook it. 



Agapornis pullarius pullarius. 



Psittacus pullarius Linn., Syst. Nat., loth Ed., [758, p. 102. — 

 Type locality : (Aethiopia = Nubia). Gold Coast, Upper 

 Guinea, substituted by Neumann. 



The \Vest African Love-Bird is recorded from several localities 

 in Southern Nigeria, notably from Agoulerie in June (R. KEMp), 

 River Niger (Nicholson), Lagos (Sir A. ]\Ialoney), and from the 

 Iju water works near Lagos in February 1920 (W. P. Lowe) and 

 again from Lagos (^L\NN;. 



From Northern Nigeria there is a spécimen obtained by 

 W. A. FoRBES at Shonga in the British Muséum collection. 



As pointed out bv Neumann there are two races of this bird, 

 the West African tvpical species and a race in East Africa which 

 he has named A. p. ugandae, the Eastern form showing a lighter 

 blue rump in adult birds. Ci..\ude Grant {Ibis, 19 15, p. 260) 

 points out other différences between the Eastern and Western race 

 but does not consider there is sufîicient évidence to warrant a new 

 name being bestowed on the Western race. He points out that 

 Neum.\nn compared his Uganda birds with West African birds and 

 not with Nubian spécimens (Ethiopia being Linn.aeus' tvpe loca- 

 litv o{ A. pullarius pullarius) but he overlooked the fact, as pointed 

 out bv Sclater and Pr.\ei) {Ibis, igig, p. 677) that Neum.vnn in 



