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THE IBIS 



EIGHTH SERIES. 



No. II. APRIL 1901. 



XIII. — On some Collections of Birds from the Protectorate 

 of British Central Africa, received in 1899 and 1900. 

 By Captain G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S. IVith an Introduction 

 by P. L. ScLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Part I. — Introductory Notes. By P. L. Sclater, 



Captain Shelley, on the present, as on many former 

 occasions, has kindly undertaken the task of naming and 

 describing the specimens contained in several collections of 

 birds from British Central Africa which have been trans- 

 mitted to me in 1899 and 1900 by Mr. Alfred Sharpe, C.B., 

 H.B.M. Commissioner, and by Lt.-Col. W. H. Manning, 

 H.B.M. Deputy Commissioner, to whose united zeal and 

 energy in continuing the good work projected and com- 

 menced by Sir Harry Johnston I have great pleasure in 

 bearing testimony. 



Mr. Alfred Sharpe, writing from Zomba, B.C. A., on 

 January 18th, 1900, describes the series sent on that 

 occasion as follows. It contains : — 



(a) My own collection of birds from Namaramba Lake, 

 which lies N.E. of Zomba, some 70 miles distant. 

 (Namaramba is at the source of the Lajenda River, 

 and is about 1700 feet above sea-level.) 



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