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birds under this name, though I believe it occurs as far east 

 as Medje. I have pleasure in naming it 



Sarothrura pulchra batesi, subsp. nov., 

 in honour of Mr. G. L. Bates, who has obtained all the 

 Cameroon specimens of the two races named herein. 



Type (in the British Museum), ? adult, B.M. Reg. No. 

 1920. 6. 26. 97. Bitye, River Ja, S. Cameroon, 17th May, 

 1913. Bill 13 mm., wing 75, tail 40, tarsus 29-5, middle toe 

 and claw 28. Number of specimens examined 7. 



Note. — In both cases I have made a female the type, as 

 the characters of the races in this species are much more 

 clearly seen than in the males. 



I have only one other remark to make as regards this 

 ganus. In 'The Ibis/ 1921, p. 117, in giving the range of 

 S. pulchra pulchra, I included Portuguese Guinea. We 

 have only one bird from this district^ collected at Gunnal by 

 Ansorge. This specimen is luckily a female and by its very 

 bright rufous head, nape, and breast, and its almost uniformly 

 banded back and wing-coverts, appears to differ from all other 

 specimens I have examined. If this bird proves to be 

 distinct, as I now suspect, we must employ the name Rallus 

 cinnamomeMs Lesson (Rev. Zool. 184:0, p. 99), where the bird 

 from Casamance is thus designated, for this race. In my 

 paper cited (L c. p. 114) I made the mistake of uniting this 

 and the Gold Coast bird under one name. Little more can 

 be done until we get specimens from Sierra Leone — the type- 

 locality of Sarothrura pulchra Gray. 



Mr. Bannerman further remarked that he was now 

 engaged in re-arranging the Ethiopian Sun-birds in the 

 British Museum collection, and found that the following- 

 races required to be separated : — 



Cinnyris superbus ashantiensis, subsp. nov. 

 Adult male. Differs from C. superbus superbus in having a 

 shorter bill (26-28 mm. as against 29-33 mm.), a shorter 

 wing (68-74 mm. as against 72-79 mm.), the metallic steel 

 blue-green cap is smaller and does not extend on to the nape 

 as it does in the typical bird. 



