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Distinguishing characters. — Head and back olive-brown, 

 washed with rufous on rump and lower back; breast and flanks 

 buffish-brovvn ; throat, chin and belly pure white. 



Macrosphenus kempi. 



Amaurocich/a kempi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C, XV^ 19051 P- 38- 

 — Tvpe locality : Bo, Sierra Leone. 



A single example of this very rare species was shot in dense bush 

 by Mr Lowe at Iju near Lagos on I3th February 1920. Hitherto 

 Kemp's Long-billed Bush-warbler bas only been known from 

 Sierra Leone, where the tvpe was shot at Bo bv Robin Kemp, and 

 by an example which Kelsall shot in the Sugarloaf forest of the 

 Sierra Leone Peninsula. Both thèse spécimens are in the National 

 Collection and I cannot see the slightest différence between them 

 and the Lagos spécimen. 



In the Ibis, 1921. pp. 121-125 I gave a complète review of the 

 genus Macrosphenus, and then took the opportunily to transfer the 

 bird we are hère dealing with to that genus from the genus Amau- 

 rocichla, in which Sharpe originally placed it; the reasons for this 

 transfer are given at length in my paper (1. c). 



(A very rare and most curious bird with an elongated neck. It 

 lives in dense bush and reminds one of a nuthatch as it creeps 

 about prying into the dead branches of bushes in search of insects. 

 — W. P. L. . 



Turdinus iboensis. 



Turdinus moloneyanus iboensis Hart., Bull. B. O. C, XIX, 

 1907, p. 85. — Type locality : Oguta, S. Nigeria. 



The Ibo Babbler is one of the raiest birds which Mr Lowe 

 obtained at Iju. The example which he shot on the 5th of February 

 is only the third known to hâve been procured. 



The first spécimen, a maie, now in the Tring Muséum, was shot 



