1917] Collections of Birds from Cameroon. 79 



under tail-coverts less rufous than in B. h. ahyssinicus 

 Bluiidell & Lovat. There are evidently several lieograpliical 

 forms of this species, but without further material they are 

 difficult to define. 



Schcenicola apicalis (Cab.). 



Schcenicola brunneiceps Reich w. Oni. Monatsb. xv. p. 172 

 (1907) [N. Uganda]. 



S. bru7itieiceps is without doubt based on an immature 

 specimen of S. apicalis. There is a young bird from Buddu, 

 Uganda^ in the Jackson Collection which agrees exactly 

 with the description, while other adults from the same 

 locality are typical S. apicalis. 



Turdinus rufipennis (Sharpe). 



Tardinus albipectus minutus van Someren, Bull. B. O. C. 

 XXXV. 1915. p. 126 [Mabira Forest]. 



Turdinus minutus van Someren, Ibis, 1916, p. 468. 



In the 'Transactions ' of the Zool. Soc. xix. pp. 379-380, 

 I discussed the position of Turdinus fulvescens Cassin and 

 T. cerviniventris Sharpe at some length. Subsequently 

 ('Ibis/ 1911, p. 624) Mr. Bates, who had examined the 

 type-specimen of T. fulvescens Cassin in the Museum of 

 the Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, pointed out that 

 Cassin's name was referable to the species Avith no white on 

 the breast and not to the white-breasted form as I had 

 supposed. My mistake arose from the fact that in the 

 British Museum there are two examples of Turdijius col- 

 lected by Du Chaillu on the Gamma River (?) and marked 

 *' Turdirostris fulvescens Cass.'' in G. R. Gray's hand- 

 writing. These rather soiled specimens were believed to 

 be co-types of Cassin's species, and one undoubtedly is so ; 

 but the second represents a different species, viz., the 

 white-breasted form T. rufipetinis Sharpe. Mr. Bates 

 corrected this mistake, but did not explain how it had 

 arisen. 



In ' The Ibis,' 1916, p. 468, Dr. van Someren denies the 

 identity of Turdinus barakce Sharpe from Toro with T. rufi- 

 pennis (Sharpe) from Gaboon [c/. Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. 



