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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
Sarothrura pulchra subsp. 
Examination of tlie Bails formerly named Sarothrura 
pulchra (Gray) reveals the interesting fact that there are 
apparently three or four distinct races of this form, as 
has already been pointed out by Neumann. The type of 
Qrex pulchra Gray [Griffiths Cuv. Anim. King. vol. viii. 
Aves, p. 410] is in the British Museum. It is an adult male, 
but the sex was not ascertained. The only locality on the 
label is “ Africa.” In the Catalogue of Birds, vol. xxiii. 
p. 117, “ West'Africa” is supplemented for the locality from 
which it was obtained. In the original description no type 
locality is mentioned. 
The next mention of this Bail is in Gray's Zool. Miseell. 
1831, p. 13, where no locality is mentioned either. 
Gray therefore does not himself designate a type locality 
for this species. 
The first mention of a locality from which this Bail has 
been obtained is given, prior to Gray's work appearing, by 
Latham in his f History of Birds,' vol. ix. 1824, p. 379, where, 
under the English heading, “ Bufous-headed Bail," he gives 
the description of a female bird which he says inhabits 
Sierra Leone. This description can only apply to the female 
of Sarothrura pulchra, and we may therefore accept Sierra 
Leone as the first designated locality of this species. 
It is next noted by Swainson in his 'Birds of West 
Africa,’ 1837, p. 243, but again no particular habitat is 
mentioned. 
There is only one other name for this Bail, i. e. Ralius 
cinnamomeus Lesson [Bev. Zool. 1840, p. 99], where 
the bird from Casamance (Portuguese Guinea) is thus 
designated. 
I have not seen a single specimen from Sierra Leone, but 
there can be little doubt that it is the same as the Gold Coast 
bird which we know to be S. pulchra of Gray (cf. Schlegel, 
Mus. Pays-Bas, Balles, 1865, p. 26—Gold Coast). I have 
also before me several specimens from Fantee and Bibiani, 
as well as birds from Portuguese Guinea and the Gambia, 
