ON 
BUG EROS CULTRAT US, 
A NEW SPECIES FROM SIERRA LEONE 
BY 
PROFESSOR CARL SUNDEVALL. 
(In tho “ofversigt af Kongl. V etenshaps-ahadcmiens Forhandlin- 
gar” for 1849, p. 156, is a valuable notice by Professor Sundevall of 
the birds, twenty-three in number, procured in 1790 by Afzelius 
at Sierra Leone, and which are still preserved in the Museum of 
Upsala. One of these Professor Sundevall describes as new, and 
as in a recent letter to myself he communicates some additional 
observations respecting it, together with a drawing of the specimen, 
I have thought it deserving of a place in the “ Contributions. 
H. E. Strickland.) 
Professor Sundevall’s original description is as follows— “ Bueeros 
cultratus, n. sp.— Niger, capite comoso, colloque fulvo-albidis ; 
vostro mutico (albo) l®vi, culmine tereti, antice compresso. Avis 
magna et speciosa e Sierra Leona allata. Circitei 30-pollicaris , 
rostrum ab angulo, 110 mm.; ala, 360; cauda, 310; tarsus, 48. 
Rostrum (siccatum) album, sat crassum, culmine mque arcuato, 
absque incisura vel prominentia. Tomia integra. Nares longius 
ante oculos, in sinu baseos rostri sitse. Carinula obtusa, supra 
nares incepta, ante apicem rostri evanescit. Maxilla inferior l®vis, 
gnathidiis basi deorsum oblique rotundatis. Plum® capitis long®, 
lax®, paullum adscendentes, pulchre lacero-decomposit®, u vc ‘ 
sccntes, in occipite longihs dependentes. Caput et collum fu yo- 
albida. Pectus, usque ad pedes, maculatum ; pluinis mgris, pa lido 
limbatis. Cauda rotunda ta. Rectrices laterales, utrinquo 3, tot® 
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