from Efulen in Cameroon. 105 



the blackish bars on the quills and tail-feathers somewhat 

 more pronounced. 



The females seem to be browner and less rufous than the 

 rnales, and to have bars on the hind-neck and mantle. All 

 the birds shew a trace of brown vermiculation on the black- 

 streaked breast-feathers. 



46. PlSORHINA HOLERYTHRA. (Plate II.) 



Scops holerythra Sharpc, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 3 (1901) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1902, p. 92. 



Pisorhina badia Reichenow, Orn. MB. xi. p. 41 (1903). 



<J ad. Efulen, Jan. 3, 1903. " So'ole alum." 



This specimen agrees with Dr. Reichenow's description of 

 P. badia, and has white shoulder-spots, which were wanting 

 in the type-specimen of my Scops holerythra. I think that, 

 notwithstanding the difference, these two species are iden- 

 tical, and that the cinnamon under-surface with its white 

 arrow-head spots renders it sufficiently distinct from P. ictero- 

 rhyncha of Shelley. 



47. Syrnium nuchale. 



Syrnium nuchale Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 65 ; Sjost. K. Sv. 

 Vet.-Akad. Handl. 27. p. 41 (1895). 



? juv. Efulen, Nov. 19, 1901. 



<?. „ March 20, 1902. "Akufi." 



$. „ March 25, 1902. 



<?. „ Oct. 23, 1902. 



? . „ May 30, 1903. 



<?. „ June 10, 1903. 



There seems to be a distinct dark phase of this bird, not 

 connected with sex, as we have females in both plumages 

 from Mr. Bates. The reddish phase seems to be the com- 

 moner of the two, as he has sent only two examples of the 

 dark form. 



Mr. Bates had already sent a specimen of this Wood-Owl 

 from the Benito River in the French Congo-district, where 

 the bird is called " Alum.'' The specimens from Cameroon 

 seem to be identical Avith those from other parts of West 

 Africa, such as the Gold Coast and the Congo. 



