1921.] collected in Southern Cameroon. Il7 



Guinea witli S. p. centralis, or of coiisiilcring it a di>tinct 

 race distinguished 



from ;S'. p. pu/c/ira, by having the black bars on the back 

 decidedly broader ; 



from S. [>. zeiikeri, by having a tail unifonidy banded in 

 black and chestnut, and by having tlie black bars 

 of the back only three limes as broad as the 

 chestnut bars (instead of six times as broad )j 

 and by having a brighter chestnut head ; and 



from S. p. centralis, by having the chestnut of the head 

 brighter. 



If we consider the Cameroon, Angola, and western 

 Belgian Congo birds as distinct from centralis., we shall have 

 the following races of S. pulchra : — 



SaROTHKUKA rULCIIKA PUIXIIKA. 



[_Crc.v pulchra Gray, in (jriflith's Cuv. Anim. King, 

 vol. viii. Aves, p. 410 — Type locality : Sierra Leone 

 (Latiiam's Hist. Birds, ix. 1824, p. 379).] 

 Ran(/e. The Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, 

 Gold Coast. 



). 



S. PULCHRA subs} 



Raiiffc. N.W. Belgian Congo (Tingasi and Ndorunn 

 Cameroon (11. Ja), N. Angola (N'Dalla TandoJ. 



S. PUI.CHRA ZENKEIU. 



[Sarothrura pulchra zenkeri Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxi. p. 45 — Type locality : Bipinde, S. Cameroon.] 

 Range. Bipinde District, S. Cameroon. 



S. YULCnRA CENTRALIS. 



\_Sarotlirura pnlchru centralis Neumann, Bull. 15. O. C. 

 xxi. p. 45 — Type locality : Msvva, on the west 

 shore of Lake Albert.] 

 Range. Lake liegion of Central Africa ; Uganda, and 

 northern Kavirondo to Nandi. 



