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Tigrornis leucolopha. 



Tigrisoiiia Icucolop/iiiiii Jardine, Ann. Maj;. Nat. Hist., X\'II, 

 1S46, p. 86. — Tvpe localitv : Old Calabar. 



The beautifiil West African Sun-Bittern lias been obtained on 

 two occasions in Southern Nigeria. In the first phice the type came 

 froni Old Calabar, and another spécimen was obtained bv the 

 German collecter M.\nn at Lagos which is now in the Stuttgart 

 Muséum. 



Range. — Représentée in the British Muséum from Sierra 

 Leone, Gold Coast, Cameroon, Gaboon and the Rio Benito. 

 Reichenow {Vogel Afrikas, I, p. 366) records it in addition from 

 Libéria, Togoland and the Loango coast. 



Famii.v BUKHINIDAE. 



Burhinus senegalensis. 



Oedicneiiius sciiegalensis Swains., Bds. West. Afr., II, 1837, 

 p. 228. — Type locality : Sénégal. 



An example of the Sénégal Thickknee was shot bv Mr. Lowk at 

 the Iju water-works, Lagos on igth December 1919, and Mann 

 shot a spécimen at Lagos, now in the Stuttgart Muséum. In Nor- 

 thern Nigeria Boyd Alexander obtained it on the Yo river near 

 Lake Chad. 



Range. — Represented in the British Muséum from the follo- 

 wing districts : Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, Gambia, Portuguese 

 Guinea, Gold Coast, Upper Nigeria, S. Nigeria, Cameroon, 

 French, Equatorial Africa. 



(Verv scarce at Iju. I onlv found a single bird on Dec. içth. — 

 W. P.L.). 



