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Mr. D. A. Ban Herman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
Lampribis rara. 
Lampribis rara Roth sell., Hart., & Kleinschm., Nov. Zool. 
iv. 1897, p. 377—Type locality : Denkera, Gold Coast. 
In ‘The Ibis/ 1914, pp. 622-626, I attempted to dis¬ 
entangle the confusion into which Lampribis rara and 
Lampribis olivacea had fallen. 1 then showed that Ibis 
olivacea Da Bus ought not to have been confused with 
L. rara ; and I then accepted the following as the range of 
these two very distinct species :— 
L. rara. Ashanti, Cameroon, Upper Congo. 
L. olivacea. Prince’s Isl., St. Thomas Ish, Cameroon, and 
the coast of Guinea. 
Further material has induced me to considerably alter the 
views then expressed with regard to the range of these two 
birds, but all I wrote as regards the confusion of the two 
forms I now stand by. My paper was apparently overlooked 
by Dr. Chapman when in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. xxxi. 
1912, p. 235, he gives a description of a bird obtained by 
Du Chaillu on the Muni River, which is obviously a specimen 
of Lampribis rara , and calls it erroneously Lampribis olivacea, 
EllioFs wrongly named figure (P. Z. S. 1877, pi. li.) leading 
him into the same error which I tried to correct in 1914. 
Unfortunately, when 1 wrote about these Ibises in 4 The 
Ibis’ (/. c.), I myself overlooked a much more important 
paper, written by Reiclienow (Orn. Monatsber. xi. 1903, 
pp. 132-136). 
In this paper Reichenow reviews the forms and recognises 
four different birds : — 
1. Lampribis rara, from the Gold Coast to Angola. 
2. Lampribis splendidus , from Liberia. 
3. Lampribis cupreipennis, from Cameroon. 
4. Lampribis olivaceus , from Prince’s Island and 
St. Thomas. 
1. Lampribis rara. 
Lampribis rara Rothscli., Hart., and Kleinschm. 
[Nov. Zool. iv. p. 377. Type loc. : Denkera, Gold 
Coast. Type specimen in the British Museum, 
collected by Usslier 5/11/71.] 
