86 Sir W. Jardine on some Birds from Western Africa. 
Caprimulgus (Macrodypteria) longipennis. River Bonny. 
HMirundo rustica. In moult, but apparently not differing from 
European specimens. Old Calabar river. 
Merops Cuviertt. Old Calabar river. 
Halcyon senegalensis, Linn. River Bonny. 
Halcyon cinereifrons, Vieill. (H. torquatus, Swain., Birds of W. 
Africa). River Bonny. 
Alcedo cerulea, Kuhl (Todier de juida, Buff.). This very inter- 
esting bird has the form and colouring of the true kingfishers, 
the bill only being more depressed and widened at the base, so 
much so as to have gained for it the name of “ Blue Tody” ; 
but although in this structure and also in its habits it ap- 
proaches to Halcyon, we would place it on the confines of 
Alcedo. 
Riippell met with this species in the province of Temben in 
Abyssinia pretty abundantly, frequenting light brushwood, and 
there feeding chiefly on insects. Its distribution therefore will 
extend to the very opposite coasts of the continent. Old Calabar 
river. 
Alcedo cristata. River Bonny, 
Ceryle rudis. Raver Bonny, 
Buceros fasciatus. Old Calabar river. 
Ardeola thalassina. Old Calabar river. 
TigRIsOMA LEUCOLOPHA, White-crested Tiger-Bittern. 
The crown of the head and occiput are adorned with a narrow 
white crest extending a short way down the nape, concealed an- 
teriorly by the black feathers of the forehead, which are elon- 
gated and lie over the white when the crest is not erected. The 
neck and breast are clothed with the loose standing-back feathers 
seen in the bitterns and birds of the present form. The ground 
colour of these is a deep blackish brown, each feather distinctly 
barred with yellowish brown : those on each side of the crest being 
of a deeper general tint and more narrowly banded, relieve the 
pure white feathers. Along the front of the neck and on the 
breast there are a few broad elongated feathers, entirely blackish 
brown on the one side, yellowish brown on the other, and having 
the line of the shaft marked by a conspicuous white stripe; the 
back, seapulars and wing-covers are of a deep rich brown, barred 
on the first and second with a rich shade of yellowish brown, on 
the last broadly and with a paler tint; quills and secondaries 
nearly black tipped with white; tips of the imner wing-covers 
broadly margined with white, which forms a light-coloured band 
