120 On rare Birds collected in Southern Caineroa//. [Il)is^ 



publish tlic notes which I made on the various forms while 

 working through his birds. 



We liad s[)eciniens from Cajje Cohmy, Natal, Angola, 

 Cameroon, Galjoon, Sierra Leone, J>ritish East Africn, and 

 Uganda ; in addition to which a race had i)een described 

 from the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, oL" which we 

 had no examples. 



AVe recognised Hve distinct forms as follows : — 



1. Sarothrura Rui'A RUFA (Vieill.j — ^'yv^ locality: 



" Africa.^' 

 Range. Natal, Cape Colony, Transvaal. 



2. Sarothrura rufa lugens (Bolnn) — Type locality: 



Ugalla (East of Lake Tanganyika). 

 Range. East of Lake Tanganyika. 



3. Sarothrura rufa elizabetHvI': van Someren— Type 



locality : Kisumu. 

 Range. Uganda, from Entebbe east to Elgon and 

 . Kisumu in Kenya Colony. 



4. Sarothrura kufa ansorgei van Someren — Type 



locality : Duque de Braganza. 

 Range. Angola. 



5. Sarothrura rufa bonapartei (Hartl.) — Tyi;e locality : 



Gaboon. 

 Range. Gaboon, Cameroon, extending north to Sierra 

 Leone. 



We have no specimen of Sarothrura nntouii (INIadarasz & 

 Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1911, j). 186 — Ndas^ckera and 

 Borders of Kenya Colony and Tanganyika Territory). 

 Mr. Chapin thinks it will [)rove to be synonymous with 

 S. lugens. 



Haplopelia simplex plmnbescens. 



llaplupelia plinnbesrens Sliarjx-, Ibis, lUOl, p."!)5 — Type 

 locality : Efulcn, S. Cameroon ; Hates, Ibis, UJl], p. 488. 



Mr. Hates has sent four more s{)ecimeiis of these 

 interesting Pigeons — two males and two females. It is 

 gratilying to find that these s})ecimens Ht in well with the 

 key to the species which I prepared in my review of this 



