1 921.] cuUeclcd in Soutliern Cameroon. 99 



and the underparts heavily banded. The species to ^vhich 

 it belongs may very possibly be new^ but, without adult 

 examples, must remain indeterminable. We must, however, 

 recognise 



1. Cercococcyx mechowi MECHOWi Cabanis : restricted 



to Angola ; 



2. Cercococcyx mechowi wellsi Bannerman : Cameroon 



(typical), Belgian Congo, Uganda, Buwenzori ; 

 and perhaps 



3. Cercococcyx mechowi ? subsp. : Gold Coast ; 



4. Cercococcyx, sp. or subsp. indeterminable : S. Angoni- 



laud, Nyasaland ; 



5. Cercococcyx MECHOWI olivinus Sassi, which I have 



not seen. 



Caprinmlgus europseus europaeus. 



Caprimulgus eiirojjceus Linn. Syst. ISIat. 10th ed. 1758, 

 p. 193 — Type locality : Sweden. 



I mention a bird of this species which Mr. Bates shot on 

 the 8th of December, 1913, as there are far too few refer- 

 ences to European migrants in ornithological literature to 

 allow us to omit to record any really authentic specimen. 



Caprimulgus inornatus. 



Caprimulgus inornatus Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afrika's, 

 i. 1869, p. 129— Type locality : Bogosland. 



No. 3422. ? . Bitye, River Ja, 13 February, 1909. 

 No. 5168. S ■ Bitye, River Ja, 14 December, ]912. 



Specimen No. 3422 has already been recorded by 

 Mr, Bates (Ibis, 1911, p. 516) as Macrodipteryx niacro- 

 dipterus, but I do not think there can be any question but 

 that Mr. Bates has identified his bird wrongly. Without a 

 large series for comparison it would have been impossible to 

 name this Nightjar, which, as has already been pointed out 

 is not fully grown. Curiously enough, another example of 

 this Nightjar, which has never previously been taken in 

 Cameroon, was secured by Mr. Bates in 1912. In this bird 

 the head, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts are strongly 



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