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across a single female spécimen coUected fifteen years ago at Bo 

 in Sierra Leone by Robin Kemp in February ! The species was 

 omitted from his list (Ibis 1905! and had remained nnnamed in 

 the National collection, althought correctly incorporated with 

 <". superhus spécimens. It was consequently omitted from my list 

 of Sierra Leone birds (Ibis, 192 1) and I now record it for the tirst 

 time. There can be no doubt as to the identification. It cannot 

 possibly be confused with C. jo/kuiiuic, the only other long- 

 billed species inhabiting Sierra Leone, the striped under parts of 

 that bird serving to distinguish it from the uniform-colonred 

 superbus with orange-yeliow under tail-coverts. 



C. superbus miist therefore be added to the list of Sierra Leone 

 birds. It was also omitted by Sclater and Praed from the Birds 

 of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; Bohndorff had obtained this 

 species at Semmio in the Niam-Niam in 1883. 



Range. — The species is represented in the British Muséum 

 from Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Southern Nigera, Cameroon, 

 Gaboon, Northern Angola, Belgian Congo, Uganda and the Sudan 

 (Niam-Niam country). 



(This is the commonest Sunbird as well as the most brilliant; If 

 a Bombax tree should be in flower it is sure to be found there. • 

 W. P. L.) 



Cinnyris coccinigaster (C spleiulidus Shaw auctorum). 



Ccrthia cuccinigastra Latham, Synop. Suppl., II, 1801, p. xxxv 

 et 1802, p. 164. — Type locality : Africa. 



In a footnote in his list of the Birds of the Lower Sénégal 

 région (J. f. O., 19 17, p. 206) Professor Neumann draws attention 

 to the fact that Latham's name should take the place of Shaws 

 for this Sunbird. I hâve read Latham's description (p. 164) and 

 agrée with Neumann that it is a very good one and as the name 

 has priority by ten years we must certainly accept it. 



Mr LowE collected a séries of 8 spécimens of the Splendid Sun- 



