72 Mr. "W. R. Ogilvie-Graiit un some recent [Ibis, 



VI. — Remarks on some recent Collections of Birds made 

 Inj Mr. G. L. Bates in Cameroon. By W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant, M.B.O.U. 



(Plate II.) 



The Natural History Museum has recently received a 

 collection of birds from Cameroon collected by Mr. Bates, 

 and the following notes refer to this and to another collection 

 made in 1908-9. 



In this paper only the Passerine Birds are dealt with; the 

 total number of species in the collections amounts to 156 

 and these are represented by 588 specimens. 



Mr. Bates is well known to have contributed to our 

 knowledge of the Birds of the former German colony of 

 Cameroon, From 1902 onwards^, papers on his collec- 

 tions either by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe or by himself have 

 followed one another in a constant stream, and it is to his 

 indefatigable labours that we owe most of our knowledge 

 of the avifauna of that country. 



In the present paper I have only noticed those species 

 about which there is some special interest or which have 

 not pre\iously been sent home by Mr. Bates. 



The collections were all made in the southern part of 

 Cameroon, chiefly on the Rivers Bumba, Nyong, and Ja. 

 A map showing these localities and others where Mr. Bates 

 has collected will be found on Plate XI. of 'The Ibis' for 

 1908. 



The following species and subspecies are here described 

 for the first time : — Apalis jacksoni minor, Apulis ansoryei, 

 and Brudypterus grandis. 



Heterliyphantes preussi (Reichenow). (Plate II. figs. 2, 

 2«, 26.) 



Sijmplectes preussi Reichenow, J. f. O. 189,2, p. 442 

 [Victoria, Cameroon] (S). 



* The previous papers describing Mr. Bates's collections -will be found 

 in ' The Ibis,' 1902, p. 89 ; 1904, pp. 88, ml ; 1905, pp. 89, 461 ; 1907, 

 p. 416 ; 1908, pp. 117, 317, 558 ; 1909, p. 1 ; 1911, pp. 479, 581 ; 1914, 

 pp. 169, 495. 



