from Efulen in Camaroon. 627 



with the specimen in the Museum from Tingasi obtained by 

 Emin Pasha (cf. Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 27). This bird 

 is brown on the head and mantle, slightly more rufous on 

 the scapulars and lower back, and very pale cinnamon on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, the latter having black bases. 

 The quills and wing-coverts are dark brown, edged with 

 rufous, but are not chestnut as in the West-African M. atri- 

 alatus. The tail-feathers are blackish with rufous margins, 

 and are not chestnut in the last-named species. Although 

 the Tingasi specimen is a young male and shews traces of 

 .the black adult feathers being donned, the differences are 

 not due to immaturity, as a male in change of plumage from 

 Fanti has a chestnut back and chestnut tail-feathers, the 

 latter more or less mottled with black. Mr. Jackson has also 

 obtained the same Megabias in Equatorial Africa, and has 

 described it as a distinct species, for which he will propose 

 the name of Megabias (equator •'/alls. 



98. Smithornis rufilateralis. 



Smithornis rvfilateralis G. R. Gray; Sjostedt, K. Sv. 

 Vet.-Akad. Handl. xxvii. p. 75 (1895); Reiehenow, J. f. O. 

 1896, p. 22; Sharpe, Hand-1. iii. p. 247 (1901); Reiehenow, 

 Yog. Afrikas, ii. p. 471 (1903). 



a. S ad. Efulen, Jan. 20, 1902. " Nome-kupe-mefan." 



b. <$ ad. „ April 10, 1902. 



c. $ ad. „ Dec. 10, 1902. 



I cannot discover any differences between these Efulen 

 birds and a series from the Gold Coast in the Museum. 



99. Smithornis zenkeri. 



Smithornis zenkeri Reiehenow, Orn. MB. xi. p. 41 

 (1903 : Bipindi, Kamerun) ; id. Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 724 

 (1903). 



a. $ . Efulen, Jan. 2, 1903. 



Compared with a typical (male) specimen of &. sharpei 

 from Fernando Po, the Efulen bird appears to be paler, 

 not so grey on the head, nor so deep orange-chestnut on 

 the sides of the throat and the sides of the breast. In 



