1 92 1.] collected in Sonthern Cameroon. 115 



and these all belong to the same race and must be known as 

 Sdvothrura pulclira pnlclira. 



Hitherto this species has been said by Siiarpe (Cat. Bds.) 

 and Reicheiiow (Viigel Afrikas, i. p. 286) to range from 

 Senegatnbia to Gal)ooii and Angola, east to the Congo. 



Neumann (Bull. H. O. C. xxi. p. 45) describes two races 

 of S. pulchra : — 



(A) S. p. centralis — Type loc. : Mswa, on the west shore 



of Lake Albert. Habitat. Lake Region of Central 

 Africa. 



(B) S. /J. -enkeri — Type loc. : Bipinde, S. Cameroon. 



Habitat. South Cameroon. 



In both, the males are almost indistinguishable from 

 S. p. pulchra, and the females are therefore best dealt with 

 separately. 



In the first place, the female of S. p. pulchra has the 

 ground-colour of the back black, closely barred with pale 

 chestnut ; the bars of pale chestnut and the bars of black are 

 almost the same width. This is an important point to bear 

 in mind. The black bars on the tail are, moreover, either 

 wanting or only faintly indicated. 



In the original description of /S. ^j. centralis the female is 

 said to be similar to the female of S. p. pulchra, but the tail 

 lias broad black bars, while in S. p. pulchra it is nniforra 

 chestnut or with only an indication of thin black bars. 



Now, I have before me five females from the Jackson 

 collection, collected at Mabiraand Bugoma, IFganda. These 

 birds bear out the character of the broadly banded tail, but 

 they can be distinguished from 6'. p. pulchra much more 

 readily by the barring on the upper parts (which from 

 Neumann's description one would imagine to be similar to 

 the barring in S. p. pulchra). The pale chestnut bars are, 

 however, much narrower than the black bars, which are at 

 least three times as wide as the pale bars. Thus the back 

 has a much blacker appearance than in typical specimens. 

 Although Neumann has omitted to mention this strikina 



