Birds from the JVest Coast of Africa. 247 



absolutely as the type. In the Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix. 

 p. 280, the type of C/irysococct/.r is gjiven as C. cupreus ; 

 but in this case C. cvpreus of Bocldaert is intended. But 

 Latham's C. cupreus (Suppl. Index Ornithol. ii. p. xxix, 1802) 

 is the same as Shaw's C. cupreus (Mus. Lever, p. 157, 1792), 

 which is the bird named C.smaragdineus by Swainson (Birds 

 W. Africa, ii. p. 191, 1837), and not Boddaert's species. 



C. cupreus o£ Boddaert belongs to the Golden Cuckoo. 



C. cvpreus of Latham, and subsequently of Shaw, un- 

 doubtedly refers to the Emerald Cuckoo which was named 

 C. smaragdineus by Swainson. 



Tachornis parvus brachypterus Reich. 



Tachornis parvus brachypterus Reich, ii. p. 386. 



a. S • Nanna Kru. 6th Jan., 1911. (No. 295.) 



Iris brown ; bill black ; feet dirty flesh-coloured. 



Total length in the flesh 6| inches ; expanse of win;if 

 11 1 inches. 



[This bird was decidedly rare, about half a dozen were 

 seen, on the Kru coast. At Sierra Leone, on the other hand, 

 it was very common and was discovered nesting. — W. P. L.] 



Caprimulgus accrue Shelley. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 



Caprimulgus accrce Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 379; Alexander, 

 Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 90 (1908). 



Caprim:xd(jus fulviventris Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xvi. p. 565 (1892) (part.). 



Caprimulgus natalensis Hartert, Das Tierreich (Caprim- 

 ulgidse), 1897, p. 45; Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xvi. 

 p. 564 (1892) (part.). 



Caprimulgus natalensis fulviventris Hartert, Das Tierreich 

 (Caprimulgidse), 1897, p. 45, part. ; Reich, ii. p. 367, part. 



a,h. ^. Nanna Kru. 4th & 12th Jan., 1911. (Nos. 

 240, 312.) 



Iris brown ; bill black, becoming yellowish brown at the 

 base ; feet flesh-coloured. 



Total length in the flesh 9^ inches ; expanse of wings 

 18-20 inches. 



Considerable confusion has taken place in the past between 

 C. natalensis (Smith), C. fulviventris Hart., and C. accrae 



