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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
the west. The five beautiful skins in Mr. Bates’s present 
collection show the blue superciliary stripe very distinctly. 
With the material available I do not feel inclined to accept 
Mearns’s name for the East African race which that ornitho¬ 
logist considered separable from the typical race. 
The range of M. v. variegatus seems to be as indicated by 
Mr. C. Grant in his paper quoted. 
Eurystomns gularis neglectns. 
Eurystomus gularis neglectus Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 
xvi. 1908, p. 28—Type locality : Canhoea, Angola ; Bates, 
Ibis, 1911, p. 510. 
Eurystomus gularis Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 606. 
Having compared the series of E. gularis in the British 
Museum, I agree that the two races must be recognised. 
In the series before me the distribution seems to be as 
follows :— 
E. gularis gularis. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Northern 
Nigeria. 
E. gularis neglectus . Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, 
Angola, Belgian Congo. 
E. g. neglectus are certainly more violet-coloured on the 
under surface than typical specimens, and most of the ten 
specimens examined have a distinct violet wash on the basal 
half of the two middle tail-feathers, although, as instanced 
by specimen No. 3262 and pointed out by Mr. Bates himself 
(Ibis, 1911, p. 606), this character is not always present. 
Agapornis zenkeri. 
Agapornis zenkeri Beichw. Orn. Monatsber. 1895, p. 19— 
Type locality: Yaunde, Cameroon; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, 
p. 605 ; Bates, Ibis, 1905, p. 89. 
The present collection contains three examples of this 
little Parrot [Nos. 4285, 4290, and 5496], which Mr. Bates 
tells us (Ibis, 1911, p. 497) were shot amongst others “with 
bows and arrows.” Specimens of this Parrot have been 
obtained by Mr. Bates in Cameroon at Efulen and at Bitye, 
River Ja. Reichenow (Vogel Afrikas, ii. p. 19) gives only 
