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Prince’s Island (Gulf of Guinea) and from Cameroon, which 
had hitherto been confused, and proposed a new name for 
the bird from Prince’s Island: he said :— 
“Tn the ‘Ornithologische Monatsberichte’ for 1903, 
Reichenow gives a description of a bird which he obtained 
from Cameroon, and which he named L. cupreipennis 
[Theristigus cupreipennis Reichenow, Orn. Monatsbr. xi. 
1903, p. 134. Type-locality: Cameroon]. The description 
agrees with a bird in the British Museum, which was 
obtained by Mr. G. L. Bates at Efulen, Cameroon (No. 158), 
on the 19th of May, 1903, and which in ‘ Ibis’ 1914, p. 623, 
I referred to Lampribis olivacea, thinking it was an imma- 
ture example of that bird. At first sight it would appear 
that we must call the Cameroon bird Lampribis cupreipennis 
of Reichenow, but before we accept this name for the uni- 
form-breasted, bronze-winged, short-billed Ibis from Came- 
roon let us examine the next species mentioned by Dr. 
Reichenow in his paper (J. ¢.), that is 
Lampribis olivacea. 
[Ibis olivacea Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. Belg. 1837, 
p. 105, pl. iv. et ‘ Hsquisses Ornithologiques,’ 1845, p. 5, 
pl. iii. 9 T'ype-locality : “ La céte de Guinea.” | 
The coast of Guinea! Clearly this is the type-locality of 
Lampribis olivacea and not Prince’s Island, so that if it is 
proved that the Prince’s Island bird and the bird trom the 
mainland are different, the name Lampribis oltvacea (Du Bus) 
must apply to a mainland bird, and the Prince’s Island bird 
is then left without a name. 
When re-naming the Cameroon bird L. cupreipennis, 
Reichenow believed that his bird from Cameroon was 
distinct from the Prince’s Island Ibis, which he calls: 
olivacea. 
Now to refer to the bird which Mr. Bates obtained at 
Efulen. This bird agrees very closely with Du Bus’s’plate 
of Ibis olivacea in Bull. Acad. Roy. Sci. 1837, plate iv., 
facing p. 105. ‘The crest is not so long certainly in 
Mr. Bates’s bird, but then it is not quite adult. An im- 
