12 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



Family ALOEDINID^E. 



HALCYON MALIMBICUS (Shaw). 



AJcedo malimh'ica Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII, 1811, p. 66. 



Halcyon malimbka Cassin, Cat. HMlcyou. Phila. Mns., 1852, p. 8. 



One adult male. Although Dr. Eeichenow does not include^ this 

 form among the birds of the Cameroons District, there seems to be little 

 doubt of the correct identification of the present specimen, as it agrees 

 perfectly with the plate and description given by Dr. Sbarpe.^ The 

 present locality must be quite or at least very near the northern limit 

 of the range of malimbicus, which probably passes thence into Halcyon 

 7naUniMcus forhesi, the latter occupying the region from at least the 

 Cameroons Mountains northward to Sierra Leone, and in turn replaced 

 in Senegambia hj Halcyon malimMcns torqiiatns. 



HALCYON SENEGALENSIS (Linnaeus). 



Alcedo senegalensis Linn/KUS, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. 180. 

 Halcyon senegalensis Swainson, Birds W. Afr., II, 1837, p. 97. 



Two specimens, one of which, though nearly adult, still retains some 

 indications of immature plumage. The maxilla is red, save for a dusky 

 spot on each side at the base and a narrow blackish line along the 

 apical two-thirds of the culmen. The flanks are distinctly barred with 

 dusky ; the sides of the head, including the superciliary region, together 

 with the nape and occiput, have a conspicuous wash of bluish, and the 

 whole upper surface, particularly the anterior portion, is darker and 

 duller than in the fully adult. 



Family BUCEROTID^. 

 LOPHOCEROS FASCIATUS (Shaw). 



Buceros fasciatus Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII, 1811, p. 34. 



Lophoceros fasciatus Cabanis and Heine, Miis. Hein., II, 1860, p. 168. 



A ijair of adult birds is in the collection. The greater size of the 

 male is very conspicuous in the bill. 



CERATOGYMNA ATRATA (Temminck). 



Buceros atratus Temminck, PI. Col., II, 1834, p. 69, pi. 558. 

 Cei-atogymna atrata Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 51, 



One specimen, a fine adult male, with molt not quite completed. 

 This bird was shot in the forest 10 miles east of Batanga. 



1 Journ. fiir Ornitli., 1896, p. 55. 



2 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, p. 247, pi. 6, fig. 3. 



