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Show 614 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON THE BIRDS OF CAMEROONS. [Julie 20, Above tawny, all the feathers broadly barred and tipped with downy white, each white band having a margin of dark brown; wing-coverts dark brown, a few of them strongly tinged with rufous and barred with white ; quills dark brown, inclining to tawny on the upper surface, especially of the secondaries, which are almost entirely of the latter colour ; all the quills more or less strongly marked and barred with dark brown; tail dark brown, inclining to tawny towards the tip and strongly barred with blackish brown; under surface tawny, paler and inclining to fulvous white on the abdomen, which is unspotted, all the breast barred across with white ; legs tawny, with tiny marks of brown; under wing-coverts dark rufous, with brown marking. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1*2, wing 9*5, tail 6, tarsus 1*6. Order GRALLAE. Fam. RALLIDAE. 59. RALLUS OCULEUS. Rallus oculeus (Tem.) ; Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 241. One specimen. Fam. TANTALID^E. 60. IBIS RELIGIOSA. Ibis religiosus, Sav. ; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 231. One specimen. Order ANSERES. Fam. PODICIPIDJE. 61. PODICA SENEGALENSIS. Podica senegalensis (V.) ; Hartl. Orn. W . Afr. p. 249. One specimen. Fam. LARIDAE. 62. STERNA FISSIPES. One specimen. The following is a list of the birds now recorded from Cameroons, including those already described by Mr. George Robert Gray from Capt. Burton's collection :- 1. Ceryle rudis (L.). 2. Alcedo quadribrachys, Bp. 3. Ispidina picta'(Bodd.). 4. Halcyon dryas, Hartl. 5. cganoleuca (V.). 6. senegalensis (L.). 7. Berenicornis albocristatus (Cass.). 8. Tockus pulchrirostris (Schl.). 9. Turacus cristacus (V.). 10. Cory thrix per sa (L.). 11. meriani, Riipp. 12. Chrysococcyx claasii (Vi). 13. cupreus (Bodd.). 14. smaragdineus, Sw. 15. Zanclostomus flavirostris (Sw.). 16. Tricholcema hirsuta (Sw.). |