139 [Vol. xliii. 



"I unite with this race a bird from Sierra Leone {cf. 'Ibis,' 

 1917, p. 76). 



"The measurements of the new form are as follows : — Bill 

 12-13 ; wing, $ 47-5-52, ? 45 mm. Tail 27-30 ; 

 tarsus 16*5-21 mm. Bill black; tarsus dull brown; feet 

 orange ; iris dark brown ; bare skin on the neck bright blue. 



" Type, cj ad. Beoumi, 200 miles north of Grand Bassam, 

 Ivory Coast, 30th November, 1922. W. P. Lowe and 

 R. J. Hardy Colls. 



" Named in honour of Mr. Willoughby P. Lowe. 



" CoccYCOLius lEis Oustalet. 

 " This is undoubtedly the gem of the collection. The 

 discovery of the Purple-bellied Emerald Starling in the 

 interior of the Ivory Coast is of great interest. It was 

 described by Oustalet from specimens said to have been 

 obtained on the Loss Islands off French Guinea, but there 

 seems to be very little doubt that the bird never occurred 

 there. It is more likely that the type in the Paris Museum 

 and a poor skin which we received many years ago from the 

 Paris Museum came from Foota Jallon in the interior of 

 French Guinea^ but it has ne^er been obtained by any 

 scientific collector until Mr. Lowe and Mr. Hardy shot five 

 specimens at Bandama and Beoumi some 200 miles north of 

 Grand Bassam. 



" Macrosphenus kempi. 



" I am exhibiting two specimens of this very interesting 

 species obtained by the expedition at Beoami. One is made 

 up as a normal cabinet skin, while the other has been 

 specially prepared by Mr. Willoughby Lowe to show the 

 manner in which the bird erects the puff-like feathers of the 

 back and rump — a habit which we did not realise this bird 

 possessed. Mr. Lowe says that the skin now closely resembles 

 the live bird. 



" In the ' Ibis,' 1921, p. 123, I transferred this species 

 from the genus Amaurocichla, where Sharpe had placed it, to 

 the genus Macrosphenus. It is certainly much better placed 

 in that genus, but I am now contemplating placing the bird 



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