106 Mr. I). A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 



seems to Ijc the first record of this species from (Jame- 

 rooD. 



We have specimens iu the British Museum from the 

 Egyptian Sudan and Abyssinia in the east, and from 

 Sierra Leone, Gold (*oast, French Congo, and Portuguese 

 Congo in the west. 



Spizaetus africanus. 



Limna'etus africanus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1865, 

 p. 4 — Type locality : Ogobai River, Gaboon. 



Tiie only specimen which Mr. Bates procured of this rare 

 bird — a male shot on the 16th of December, 1913, at Bitye, 

 R. Ja— was described by Mr. W. L. Sclater (Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxxix. p. 87) as Spizaetus batesi, sp. nov. Mr. Sclater had 

 then overlooked the fact that what must evidently be the 

 same bird had l)een already described by Cassin : l)ut he 

 discovered and corrected his mistake himself in the following 

 number of the ' Bulletin' (vol. xxxix. pp. 93, 94'). 



Pteronetta hartlaubi. 



Querquednla Jiartluubi Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, 

 p. 175 — Type locality: Camma and Ogobai (Gaboon). 



Pteronetta tiartlaubi Sliarpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 98, 1907, 

 p. 425; Bates, Ibis, 1909, p. 6, 1911, p. 482. 



Pteronetta hartlaubi albifrofis Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. 

 1908, p. 42. 



In 1908 Oscar Neumann gave a name to the form of 

 Hartlaub's Duck from the Upper Congo, Ituri, and Uele 

 Rivers, n;iming it P. h. albifrons. He separated it from 

 typical examples of P. hartlaubi ((Jassin) on account of 

 adults of both sexes having " a large white patch on the 

 forehead, extending to the middle of the vertex,^' noting 

 "in the West-African form the females never had any white 

 on the head, but in the males there were sometimes a few 

 white feathers on the forehead.'' 



In 'The Ibis,' 1911, p. 482, Mr. Bates makes the following 

 interesting observation: — " ^lale specimens (Nos. 3661 and 

 4143) from (Jameroon have a small white spot on the fore- 



