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from one-third their length from the tips, and the tail also 

 white with a broad black band nearly in the centre. 



3. B. subcylindricus, Sclater. Western Africa ? Resem- 

 bles B. cylindricus, but has fully one half of the secondaries 

 white, crest spotted, and median tail-feathers black for their 

 entire length. 



4. B. buccinator, Temm. South Africa. Crest slightly 

 spotted. Secondaries black tipped with white ; and tail-fea- 

 thers, except median, also white for about an inch and a half 

 from the tip. All these four species have high casques in 

 both sexes, those of the males projecting forward in a point 

 nearly the entire length of the maxilla. 



I should place next, as being slightly larger in size, the 



5. B. sharpii, Elliot. Gaboon to Angola, West Africa. 

 Bill strongly ridged on the culmen at base. Secondaries, 

 excepting the three outermost ones, pure white. Tail pure 

 white, with the exception of the median feathers, which are 

 black, and the ones next to them, which have their bases also 

 black. 



6. B. fistulator, Cassin. Fantee. Tail black, a narrow 

 line at the base and the lateral feathers tipped with white. 

 Secondaries black, except for about an inch and a half from 

 their ends, which is white. 



XXII. — Note on Homochlamys luscinia, Salvad. 

 By T. Salvadori, C.M.Z.S. 



Among some birds which the Count Turati, of Milan, has 

 sent me lately, I found a specimen of Calamoherpe canturiens, 

 Swinh. The name was written on the label in Mr. Swinhoe's 

 handwriting, so that I think there can be no mistake in the 

 exact determination of the specimen, which at the first sight I 

 recognized to belong to my Homochlamys luscinia. The only 

 difference is in the colour of the bill, which in Swinhoe's spe- 

 cimen is of a horny brownish, while in mine it is yellowish. 

 This is of small moment, as in dried specimens kept for a 



