506- Mr. D. A. Bannerman on the 



a. S ad. (No. 4). Cameroon Mt. 3. iv.09. 



b. S ad. (No. 2). „ „ 6. iv.09. 



c. S ad. (No. 3). „ „ 12. iv.09. 



d. e. S ad. (Nos. 1 & 5). „ „ 24. iv. 09. 

 /. S ad. (No. 6). „ „ 10. V. 09. 



Priiiia epichlora is almost exactly similar in size and 

 colouring to Prinia niarice Alexander^ with the exception 

 that the tail is less than half the length, nieasnriug only 

 58 mm. instead of 129 mm. Alexander placed P. marice in 

 a new genus, Urolais, which he characterised in the Bull. 



B. O. C. xiii. 1903, p. 35. As the length of the tail is the 

 only character given, I prefer to unite the genus Urolais 

 with Prinia. 



A good figure of P. marice is given in the ' Ibis/ 1903, 

 pi. viii. 



[Found in the forest above 3000 ft. inhabiting the tops 

 of the high trees. — B. A.] 



45. Camaroptera griseoviridis tincta. 



Syncopta tincta Cassin, Proc. Piiilad. Acad. 1855, p. 325 : 

 Moonda River (Gaboon). 



a. c? ad. (No. 1). Below Buea,. Cameroon Mt. 10. v. 09. 

 I have referred the specimen procured by Alexander to 



C. g. tincta, as I consider Cassin's name must stand for the 

 race found on the Guinea coast from Cameroon to Gaboon. 

 The type locality of C. g. tincta is the Moonda River, which 

 is situated in French Gaboon close to the boundary of the 

 Rio Muni Province. The typical species Camaroptera g. 

 griseoviridis was described from Kordofan (Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan). A review of the genus Camaroptera is given by 

 Zedlitz in the Journ. fiir Orn. 1911, pp. 328-345, where 

 several new forms are described. The paper should be 

 consulted by anyone working on this difficult group, but 

 it must be noted that the list of species and subspecies 

 enumerated on p. 314 is not, in the light of recent dis- 

 coveries, by any means complete. 



