from Efulen in Cameroon. 97 



How Lampribis got into the wrong section of the " Key/ 

 with the anterior aspect of the tarsus " plated," I cannot 

 now explain. Whether it was a lapsus calami on my part 

 or a printer's error, we shall never know; but it was certainly 

 a mistake, for which I have to apologize. But let me assure 

 Count Salvadori that Lophotibis really has a plated tarsus. 

 It would also have been easy, I should have thought, to 

 have asked me for an explanation, as I was the author of 

 the statement. 



The question, after all, is very simple, or at least it will be 

 so when we have sufficient materials. Passing by Hagedashia 

 splendida of Salvadori, from Liberia, which I have never seen, 

 the difficulty remains as to whether H. olivacea and H. vara 

 are the old and young of the same species, or whether they 

 are distinct. At first I thought that they were the same 

 (Cat. B. xxvi. p. 38), but afterwards I followed Messrs. 

 Rothschild, Hartert, and Kleinschmidt in referring Du Bus's 

 " Ibis olivacea " to Hagedashia hagedash, and in recognising 

 their Lampribis vara. Count Salvadori unites the two once 

 more ( c Ibis/ 1903, p. 187), and concludes that L. rara is the 

 young of L. olivacea. More recently Professor Reichenow 

 (Orn. MB. xi. p. 132) has written a paper to shew that there are 

 probably four forms — Theristicus olivaceus, T.rarus, T.cuprei- 

 pennis, and T. splendidus. Certainly the Gold Coast form, 

 T. rams, has a much longer bill, and at present it seems only 

 right to keep it separate. 



20. PSEUDOTANTALUS IBIS. 



Pseudotantalus ibis (Linn.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 327. 

 $ ad. Efulen, Aug. 5, 1903. 



21. Ardea melanocephala. 



Ardea melanocephala Vig. & Child r. ; Sharpc, Cat. B. 

 xxvi. p. 70. 



S ad. Efulen, Dec. 3, 1902. 



22. BUTORIDES ATRICAPILLA. 



Butorides atricapilla (Afzel.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. xxvi. p. 172 ; 



SER. VIII. — VOL. IV, n 



