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spécimen of F. t. carlo in the British Muséum from Pettie on 

 the Kaduna river in Northern Nigeria, but no spécimens from 

 S. Nigeria. 



(This useful bird seems scarce. I only saw three. — W. P. I..) 



A\'iceda cuculoides cuculoides. 



Aviceda cuculoides Swainson, Birds West Africa, I, 1837, pi. I, 

 p. 104. — Type locality : West Africa. 



The spécimen of the West African Cuckoo-Falcon which 

 Mr. LowE shot at Iju on the 3ist January, 1920 is of particular 

 interest as it is the first recorded example from Southern Nigeria. 

 It will be noted that Southern Nigeria lies midway between the 

 hilherto accepted ranges of A. cuculloides cuculloides and A. c. 

 hate.si. We should expect the Lagos bird to belong to the typical 

 species and I believe it to do so, although it is an immature 

 spécimen and is therefore most difïicult to name. The characters 

 which separate A. c. cuculloides from A. c. (6(?/e5/ are impossible 

 to distinguish in the young, and indeed, 1 am unable to see the 

 characters in the British Muséum séries which Mr. Swann gives 

 for A. c. batesi. Perhaps Mr. Swann had other material. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve one spécimen shot at Serikim- 

 Kudu near Ibi by Boyd Alexander. 



There are four races oi A. c. cuculloides if we accept 

 Mr. SwANNS race for the Southern Guinea birds. The first two 

 are West African forms. They are as follows : 



1. — Aviceda cuculloides cuculloides. 



Cf. supra. 



Range. — Represented in the British Muséum from Sierra 

 Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, 

 French Equatorial Africa. 



