390 Mr. Boyd Alexander on the 



Adult male. Similar to M. northcotti Sharpe, but differs 

 in having the black band round the throat wider. It is also 

 larger. 



Adult (M. marionce). Bakaki, 4000 ft., Nov. 17, 1902. 

 Total length 8'4 inches, culmen 14, wing 35, tail 33, 

 tarsus 0*4. Iris red ; legs and feet dull purplish black. 



Adult (M. northcotti). British Museum. Gold Coast. 

 Length 7'2 inches, culmen 12, wing 3"3, tail 3"5. 



We first met with this Bee-eater at Basakato, near 

 Bakaki. Our second specimen was obtained at an elevation 

 of 4000 ft. Found in pairs. 



Named after Miss Marion Alexander. 



83. Ispidina leucogastra (Fraser) . 



Halcyon leucogaster Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 4 (Clarence, 

 Fernando Po : type, Brit. Mus.) ; Allen & Thomson, Narr. 

 Exped. Niger, ii. p. 503 (1848: Fernando Po). 



Alcedo leucogaster Fraser, Zool. Typ. pi. xxxii. (1849) ; Bp. 

 Consp. Av. i. p. 159 (1850: Fernando Po). 



Ispidina leucogastra Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) iv. p. 7 

 (1895 : Fernando Po) ; Shelley, B. Afr. i. no. 1610 (1890) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 54 (1900); lleicheu. Vog. 

 Mrikas, ii. p. 288 (1902: Fernando Po) ; Bocage, Join. 

 Lisb. (2) vii. p. 31 (1903 : Fernando Po). 



Ispidina leucogaster Salvad.Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, iii. p. 11G. 



Occasionally observed along the mountain-streams. 



84. Halcyon lopesi. 



Halcyon lopezi Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 33 (1903) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. (2) vii. p. 38 (1903); Salvad. Orn. Golfo 

 d. Guinea, iii. p. 117. 



Adult female. Upper parts and sides of head dark chest- 

 nut ; quills black ; secondaries black, with a subquadrate 

 speculum of bluish green ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts light bluish green ; tail-feathers bluish green, 

 edged on their inner webs and broadly tipped with black ; 

 entire under parts white ; under wing-coverts white : iris 

 brown ; eyelids coral-red ; bill dark coral-red ; legs and feet 

 coral. Total length (measured in flesh) 8G inches, culmen 



