242 Mr, D. A. Bannerman on a Collection of 



Iris brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible bluish 

 lioni-coloured ; feet grey. 



Total length in the flesh 8:^ inches; expanse of wings 

 14 inches. 



I have been unable to determine this bird to my entire 

 satisfaction, although from the locality it should certainly 

 be M. pyocephalus. The specimen, which Mr. Lowe shot 

 in Sierra Leone, is in fresh plumage but is immature. 

 The upper parts are olive-brown, not golden olive as in 

 the adult; the head, which is grey, has a few pink 

 feathers interspersed over the crow^n and occiput, while the 

 feathers of the rump are salmon-pink in contrast to the 

 bright scarlet rump in the examples of M. iKnocephalus 

 which I have examined. The entire under parts are 

 greenish grey, narrowly barred with light brown on the 

 Hanks. The only immature example in the National Col- 

 lection shews considerably more golden olive on the back 

 than is present in the Sierra Leone bird. 



Mr. Lowe ascertained the sex of this example to be a 

 female, althongii assuming the scarlet, head of the male. 



Barbatula chkvsopyga Shelley. 



Barbutula chrysopyya Reich, ii. p. 148. 



G. ?(?). Sekondi. 23rd Dec, 1910. (No. 158.) 



b. S ' Namia Kru. 7th Jan., 1911. (No. 281.) 

 Iris brown ; bill and feet black. 



Total length in the flesh 3.f inches; expanse of wings 

 6 inches. 



This Rarbet has been omitted by Mr. Chubb from the 

 List of Liberian Birds. 



TuRACus persa (Linn.). 



Turacus persa Reich, ii. p. 54. 



a,b. S. Sekondi. 23rd Dec, 1910. (Nos. 179, 180.) 



c. c?. Axim. 17th Feb., 1911. (No. 482.) 

 Iris brown, eyelids red ; bill red ; feet black. 



Total length in the flesh 17^ inches ; expanse of wings 

 19 inches. 



[This Turaco is known to the natives as the " Clock 



