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The rnnoe of tliis bird is too well kiiown to need detailed notice 

 hère. It is found throughout Africa and we bave a fairly large 

 séries froni the difterent localities including on the West Coast, 

 Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast 



Butorides striata atricapilla. 



A/ (/(■,! atricapilla Akzei.hts, Acta. Acad. Stockh., XX^^ 1804, 

 p. 264. — Tvpe locality : Sierra Leone. 



Spécimens of the African Black-lieaded Héron hâve heen 

 obtained in Southern Nigeria bv Kemp at Burutu and by ^L\^•N 

 at Lagos. 



In X. Nigeria it has been obtained bv Dr. C CiiRisTv at Jebba. 



Range. — VVidelv distributed in Africa; we hâve in the British 

 Muséum a hirge séries from : 



West Africa : Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libé- 

 ria, Gold Coast, S. Nigeria, Lake Chad, Cameroon, BelgianCongo, 

 French Congo, N. Angola and St. Thomas' Island. 



East Africa : Abvssinia, Sudan, Kenva Colonv, Uganda, Tan- 

 ganvika Territorv, Nyasaland, Khodesia. Port : East Ai'rica, 

 Transvaal. Natal, Cape Colonv. 



Bubulcus ibis ibis. 



Ardca ibis Linn., Syst. Nat., loth éd., 175S, p. 144. — Tvpe 

 localitv : Egvpt. 



Two spécimens of the Buff-backed Egret were shot bv Mr. Lowi-; 

 at the Iju water-works in S. Nigeria. 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve examples in the Muséum from 

 Shonga (Forres). Jarko (Bkocki.ebaniO, and from Lake Chad 

 (BovD Alexander). 



Range. — We hâve also spécimens in the British Muséum from 

 Gambia, Cameroon and Gaboon, Egvpt, Algeria, Morocco, Abys- 



