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Mr. D. A. Bannerman also exhibited an example of 

 Lampribis olivacea Du Bus, from Prince's Island, Gulf of 

 Guinea, and made the following remarks : — 



'' In my paper on the Birds of Prince's Island (' Ibis/ 

 1914, pp. 622-626) I paid particular attention to the 

 history of this species, concerning which much confusion 

 had existed. 



*^Dr. Gestro, of the Genoa Museum, has very kindly lent 

 me an example of this rare Ibis, which was obtained by 

 Leonardo Fea in Prince's Island in 1901. It will be seen 

 that the plate of Ibis olivacea in the ' Esquisses Ornitholo- 

 giques' accurately represents the specimen exhibited. 



"The type-locality of Lampribis olivacea lis given by 

 DuBus as 'la cote de Guinee,' and the type specimen is 

 preserved in the Brussels Museum. 



'' In 1903 Mr. G. L. Bates obtained in Cameroon an im- 

 mature example of this rare Ibis, which is now in the British 

 Museum. The adult bird from Prince's Island which I 

 exhibit to-night is, as far as I know, the only other 

 specimen in existence." 



Mr. Claude Grant sent the description of a new sub- 

 species of Scopus, which he proposed to call 



Scopus umbretta Ijannermani, subsp. n., 



and characterised as follows : — 



Adult. Considerably larger than S. u. umbretta, and often 

 somewhat more ashy below. Culmen 77 mm., wing 328, 

 tail 176, tarsus 65. 



As apparently first pointed out by Major Kelsall and 

 Mr. Bannerman f/Ibis,' 1914, p. 225), the true Scopus 

 umbretta Gmelin (Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, 1789, p. 618 : 

 Africa = Senegal, cf. Buff. PI. Enl. n. 796) is quite a small 

 bird, having the wing-measurement of 248-256 mm. as 

 compared with 300-330 mm. in examples from other 

 parts of Africa. The larger bird therefore requires a 

 new name. 



Cepphus scopus of Wagler (Syst. Av. 1827, p. 146) is a 



