606 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 



a, b. ? ad. Efulen, Nov. 2, 18, 1902. 



Professor Reichenow records the occurrence of the 

 Common Roller in Camaroon in October and November. 

 It is doubtless a regular winter migrant. 



28. EURYSTOMUS GULARIS. 



Eurystomus gularis Vieill. ; Sjostedt, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. 

 Haudl. xxvii. p. 67 (1895); Reichenow, J. f. O. 1894, 

 p. 34, 1896, p. 19 ; Sharpe, Hand-1. ii. p. 47 (1900) ; 

 Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 230 (1902). 



a. S ad. Efulen, Sept. 13, 1902. " Kaman." 



29. Ceryle sharpii. 



Ceryle sharpei Gould ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1894, p. 34 ; 

 Sharpe, t. c. p. 50 (1900). 



Ceryle maxima (nee Pall.) ; Sjostedt, t. c. p. 63 (1895). 



Ceryle maxima xawgigantea Sw. ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 

 ii. p. 299 (1902). 



Nos. 90, 930. c? ? imm. Efulen, March 19, 31, 1903. 



No. 237. ? ad. Efulen, Nov. 14, 1903. 



The adult female has a slaty-grey band across the chest, 

 some of the feathers being centred with black and shewing a 

 few white spots. A patch of white feathers, tipped with slaty 

 black, separates the slaty-grey crop from the chestnut 

 abdomen. The back is uniform slaty grey, with blackish 

 centres to the feathers. 



The young male and female are very much alike in colour, 

 but the male has white on the centre of the breast and 

 abdomen, varied with black spots ; the flanks are uniform 

 chestnut. The crop-band is very similar in both birds, but 

 the male shews more rufous, the feathers being black in the 

 centre with rufous margins, less distinct in the female. 

 The latter has the under wing-coverts chestnut, whereas in 

 the male they are white with longitudinal spots of black. 



I cannot agree that Swainson's name of gigantea, even 

 if his bird really came from Senegambia, belongs to this 

 species, for he distinctly says that " the general colour is 

 dark cinereous, thickly covered with white spots" ! 



