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Onychognathus fulgidus hartiaubi. 



Onychognatlnis Jiartlaiibi Gray, P. Z. S., 1858, p. 291. — Type 

 locality : Fernando-Po. 



I consider that Hartlaub's Chestnut-winged Starling must be 

 reckoned a subspecies of O. fulgidiis from St. Thomas Island in 

 the Gulf of Guinea. 



O. f. hartiaubi was obtained by P. A. Talbot at Nsan in iqoq 

 and Mr Lowe bas now obtained a small séries at Ijii near Lagos. 



Range. — ■ We bave spécimens in the British Musenm from 

 Libéria, Gold Coast,S. Nigeria, Fernando Po, Gaboon. N. Angola, 

 Upper Congo, and the Niam-Niam Countrv. 



Note. — O. FULGiDUS FULGiDus, the tvpical species, was descri- 

 bed by Hartlaub (Rev. Mag. Zool., 184g, p. 495, St. Thomas) 

 and appears to be confined to that Island. It is a larger bird than 

 O. f. hartiaubi and has a more pronounced hook on the upper 

 mandible. 



(A very common bird found frequenting the red flowers of 

 Bombax, in company with varions Sunbirds. I also noticed two 

 eating berries. — W. P. L.) 



Cinnyricincîus leucogaster leucogaster. 



Turdîis leucogaster Gmel., Syst. Nat., II, 1788, p. 819. — Tvpe 

 localitv : Whidah == Whvdah on the Slave Coast, Dahomey. 



The Northern Violet-backed Starling appears to be migratory 

 in Southern Nigeria from Mr Lowe's notes; he obtained three 

 spécimens near Lagos in January and Februarv 1920 and H. Robin 

 abtained two pairs at Abeokuta, recorded by Nicholson (P. Z. S., 

 1878, p. 130). Robin Kemp shot a spécimen at Agoulerie in Sep- 

 tember- 1905 and W. Lowell another at Anambra Creek in 

 April 1906; ail in S. Nigeria. 



From N. Nigeria we bave only one skin obtained bv S. Bryant 

 near Zamlufu in May 1906. 



