. The Ibis . lbocristatusCass. 1 do not think that Dr. Finsch can have seen Cassin/splate and description in the Transactions of the PhiladelphiaAcademy (vol. i. p. 135, pi. 15). Notwithstanding thatthe specimen described is said to have come from St. PaulsRiver, the bird figured is the Gaboon bird, with white spotson the wing-coverts and quills, which are also mentioned inthe description. We have in the Museum a good series of birds from Fantiand Ashanti, but only one from Liberia, presented to us bythe Leyden Museum. This example, however, has the throatand the sides of the neck black, not w
. The Ibis . lbocristatusCass. 1 do not think that Dr. Finsch can have seen Cassin/splate and description in the Transactions of the PhiladelphiaAcademy (vol. i. p. 135, pi. 15). Notwithstanding thatthe specimen described is said to have come from St. PaulsRiver, the bird figured is the Gaboon bird, with white spotson the wing-coverts and quills, which are also mentioned inthe description. We have in the Museum a good series of birds from Fantiand Ashanti, but only one from Liberia, presented to us bythe Leyden Museum. This example, however, has the throatand the sides of the neck black, not white or mottled withwhite as in the Gold Coast species, and it seems to be distinctfrom the latter. I name it, therefore, after my old friend :— Ortholophus finschi, n. sp. Ortholophus albocristatus Finsch (nee Cass.), NotesLeyden Mus. xxiii. p. 196 (1903).Hab. Liberia. 43. Scoptelus brunneiceps. (Plate XII.)Scoptelus brunneiceps Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. vol. xiv. p. 19;Bates, antea, p. 91. Ibis. 1904, \aj\s deletlxtk Mini. em. Bros ina>. SCOPTELUS BRUNNEICEPS. from Efulen in Camaroon. Oil Distinguished from S. castaneiceps by the umber-browncolour of the head and throat and by its smaller size. Totallength about 90 inches, culmen 1*0, wing 3*0, tail 4*5,tarsus 075. a. ?<J [ Efulen, March 5, 1902. Nos. 358, 359. S ? ad. Efulen, Feb. 20, 1901. I fear that I have described this species from a young birdor at best from an adult female, but the plumage correspondedwith that of S. castaneiceps, of which the Museum now pos-sesses four specimens, all similar and apparently adult. Amale of S. brunneiceps, however, shot on the 20th of Februaryand recently forwarded by Mr. Bates, has the head and throatlike the back, so that the colour is blackish with a greengloss all over. The adult male is therefore like ,but has a green instead of a purple gloss. The adult femalehas a brown head and throat, and this is probably thecharacter of the hen bird, w
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