622 Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



29. Phcenicopterus minor. 



Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffr.) ; Salvador!^ Orn. Golfo d. 

 Guinea^ i. 1903^ p. 15 ; Bocage^ Jorn. Sci. Lisboa^ 1903^ 

 p. 52. 



Count Salvador! has the following note on this species 

 supplied by Signor Fea : — 



''^I am told that it is not rare^ and that bands of it arc 

 seen occupying the 'ribeiras' in detachments for the 

 purpose of catching small fish and other aquatic organisms." 



Fea obtained a single immature male of this species on 

 Prince's Island. It does not appear to have been recorded 

 previously. ■ Alexander did not meet with it. It is probably 

 a migrant to the island. 



30. Lampribis olivacea. 



Ibis olivacea Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg. 1837, 

 p. 105^ pi. iv. ; id. Esquisses Ornithologiques^ 1845, p. 5, 

 pi. iii.; Salvadori, Ibis, 1903, p. 178. 



Lampribis olivacea Salvadori, Orn. Golfo d. Guinea, i. 

 1903, p. 13. 



Geronticus olivaceus Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Sci. Lisboa, 

 1903, p. 51. 



In the Bulletin of the Belgian Academy for 1837 Du Bus 

 described and figured an Ibis which he named Ibis olivacea, 

 said to inhabit " la cote de Guinee." A second figure of 

 this bird appeared on plate iii. in Du Bus's ' Esquisses 

 Ornithologiques.' These two figures obviously represent 

 the same species, although it will be noticed that in the 

 original plate in the Bulletin the bare skin round the eye 

 is correctly coloured blatk, while in the figure in the 

 ^Esquisses' the same patch of bare skin is coloured red. 



In 1877, Elliot, reviewing the subfamily /Z»/(fi^2« (P.Z.S. 

 1877, p. 477, pi. li.) figured * and described a bird from 



« Tbe only fault wliicli I have to fiud with this figure is that the 

 feathers of the crown are not clearly shown. The bird has a long crest, 

 the uj)per feathers of which are uniform in colour, of a deep glossy 

 green, while the under-feathers have wide bulF-coloured shaft-streaks. 

 This is not shown in the plate. 



