804 Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed on { Lbis, 2. G. n. Emini Shelley, op. cit. Type from Wadelai and ranging thence to Abyssinia, to the Welle and Ubanghi rivers, the hinterland of Cameroon, and south through the Belgian Congo to the Zambesi. Possibly a migrant over part of its range. A larger race, wing average 150 mm. No white on the outer webs of the secondaries. Neck-band white.

3. G. N. MARCHEI.

Glarcola nuchalis var. marchet Oust. Bull. Soe. Philom.

7th series, 1. 1877, pp. 104, 105 : Ogowe River, Gaboon. This may possibly prove to be identical with G. n. emint, but Oustalet’s measurements are very small, wing only 125 mm. We have no specimens from that locality. Neck-band white, no white on the outer webs of the secondaries.

4, (GLAREOLA NUCHALIS LIBERIA.

Glareola nuchalis liberie Schleg. Notes Leyden Mus. 1881, p. 58: Liberia. Similar to G. 2. emini, but with the neck-band as a rule rich chestnut. There are, however, specimens before us from the Gold Coast with an intermediate hight rusty-coloured neck-band, and Reichenow mentions that in Cameroon Conrau found both forms together.

This race extends from Cameroon to Liberia.

In the O. M. 1908, p. 191, Reichenow has described as Glareola antenia a Pratincole from the Ituri district similar to G. nuchalis, but with no neck-band at all. The only specimens we can find without neck-bands are either young birds or skins in which the neck has been damaged in the skinning. Should it prove to be a good race, it must occupy a restricted area, as we have specimens of G. n. emini from all sides of it.

The group of Pratincoles to which this species belongs is frequently separated from Glareola under the name Ga/lactochrysea—or, as criginally spelt, Galachrysia.