Birds of Cameroon Mountain. 473 



Range. British East Africa and Uganda. 



One or two apparently yo\ing birds of this race show 

 banded feathers on the throat intermixed with red-brown 

 feathers. As, however, Hartlaub's description and plate 

 give a distinctly clear throat and upper neck, without a 

 trace of red-brown, I am compelled, with the evidence before 

 me, to give the British East- African bird a new name. 

 [To be continued.] 



XXIV. — Report on the Birds collected by the late Mr. Boi/d 

 Alexander (Rifle Brigade) during his last Expedition to 

 Africa. — Part lY. llie Birds of Cameroon Mountain. By 

 David A. Bannebman, B.A., M.B.O.U., F.R.G.S. 



(Plates VI. & VII.*) 



The fourth report on the Alexander Collection, which is 

 here issued, deals with the birds obtained on Cameroon 

 Mountain only, where, as will be seen by the following 

 pages, an exceptionally fine series of sknis was obtained f- 



General Features of Cameroon Mountain. 



By glancing at the map (Plate VI.) it will be seen that 

 the western slopes of the mountain rise almost from the 

 sea-shore. 



The following brief description appears in the 'Afi'ica 

 Pilot ' : — " The base of Cameroon Mountain is nearly 

 twenty miles in diameter, and the highest Peak, named 

 Mongo-ma-loba, is 12,992 feet | above high water; the 

 mountain is covered with trees of luxuriant growth nearly 

 to the summit, but one bare brown ridge extending from 

 the eastern side towards the sea, when seen from a distance, 

 appears to be composed of lava. The Peak of Cameroon 



* Lagonosticta dyhowskii the second species figured on plate vii. will 

 be de<alt with in Part. V. of this Report. 



t I am much indebted to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant for allowing me to work 

 out this valuable collection and for looking over the pi'oof-sheets of 

 my paper. 



\ The height of Cameroon Mt. has i*ecently been ascertained to be 

 13,353 feet. 



