160 PICATHARTES OREAS 



length 16'5 inches, cuhiien 1-4, wing 60, tail 75, tarsus 2-G, Dcnkera 

 (Ussher) 



Nestling. Similar in colouring to the adult. 



The White-necked Bare-headed Crow inhabits the Gold 

 Coast and Togoland. 



Hartlaub has mentioned Mr. J. ^Ying■field's specimen in 

 the British Musenm as coming from Sierra Leone ; but there 

 is no note on the label to warrant that conclusion. Ussher 

 received from Denkera adults, a nestling and an egg of this 

 species, which are well illustrated in the " Ibis " for 1874, and 

 writes : " Aubinn, who brought me the skins, affirms that they 

 are found in rocky forest-grounds, generally in the neighbour- 

 hood of streams, that they build amongst rocks, and that the}' 

 feed on fresh-water shell-fish, snails and reptiles." 



In Togoland, IMr. Ernest Baumann found a nest of this 

 species placed on the ledge of rock, difficult to get at, on the 

 side of the Apototsi mountain, which on June 20, 1894, 

 contained two young birds. 



Picathartes oreas. 



Picathartes oreas, Reichen. Orn. Monatsh. 1899, p. 40 ; id. Yiig. Afr. 

 ii. p. 644, pi. 11, fig. 1 (1903) L'amaroons. 



Adult. Bare head, mostly black ; " forehead and chin bright blue, back 

 of head carmine red " (Reichenow) ; hack, tail and outer webs of the 

 secondaries grey, with the remainder of the quills black, throat and neck 

 grey, slightly paler than the back, and fades oS" at the crop into buffy white 

 on the remainder of the under parts. "Iris brown; bill black; tarsi and 

 feet bluish grey" (Preuss). Total length 13-7 and 14-0 inches, culmen 1-5 

 and 1'4, wing 6-1 and 5-75, tail 6'2 and 5-7, tarsus 2 5 and 2-3. Efulen 

 (Bates). 3 , 1. 12. 02, and 2 , 27. 11. 02. 



The Grey-necked Bare-headed Crow inhabits Camaroons. 

 The species was discovered I\y Dr. Preuss, at Victoria, 

 where he was Director of the Botanical Gardens of that town. 

 In the Efulen district, according" to Mr. Bates, the hills, 



