from Efulen in Camaroon. Oil 



Distinguished from S. castaneiceps by the umber-brown 

 colour of the head and throat and by its smaller size. Total 

 length about 90 inches, culmen 1*0, wing 3*0, tail 4*5, 

 tarsus 075. 



a. ?<J [juv.?J. Efulen, March 5, 1902. 



Nos. 358, 359. S ? ad. Efulen, Feb. 20, 1901. 



I fear that I have described this species from a young bird 

 or at best from an adult female, but the plumage corresponded 

 with that of S. castaneiceps, of which the Museum now pos- 

 sesses four specimens, all similar and apparently adult. A 

 male of S. brunneiceps, however, shot on the 20th of February 

 and recently forwarded by Mr. Bates, has the head and throat 

 like the back, so that the colour is blackish with a green 

 gloss all over. The adult male is therefore like S.aterrimus, 

 but has a green instead of a purple gloss. The adult female 

 has a brown head and throat, and this is probably the 

 character of the hen bird, which the young male would at 

 first resemble. 



44. Melittophagus australis. 



Meropiscus australis Reichenow, J. f. O. 1890, p. 19. 



Melittophagus australis Sharpe, Hand-1. ii. p. 73 (1900) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1902, p. 93. 



Melittophagus gularis australis Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 

 ii. p. 313 (1902). 



a. No. 40. <J ad. River Ja, Feb. 1903. " Fa-Beti." 



b. S ad. River Ja, Feb. 1903. 



c. No. 301. Efulen, Feb. 23, 1904. 



45. Merops batesiana. 



Merops batesiana Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. x. p. xlviii (1900). 

 a. No. 18. S • ^ver Ja, Jan. 1903. 



40. Merops albicollis. 



Merops albicollis V.; Sjostedt, K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 

 xxvii. p. 00 (1895) ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1890, p. 19 ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-1. ii. p. 74 (1S00). 



Aerops albicollis Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 31 7 (1902) . 



a, b. S ad. Efulen, Jan. 20, 31, 1902. 



c. No. 50. (J ad. River Ja, Feb. 1903. 



