On Birds from the Camaroon Country. 117 



I need hardly remind owe readers that Col. Waddell, 

 who was the Chief of the Medical Service in the Tibetan 

 Expedition of 1904, made a collection of birds on that 

 occasion. This was unfortunately lost on the return march 

 from Lhasa, except a few specimens which were examined 

 by Mr. Dresser and described by him*. 



IV. — On further Collections of Birds from the Efulen District 

 of Camaroon, 11 est Africa. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 LL.D. With Notes by the Collector, G, L. Bates. — 

 Part V. t 



(Plate III.) 



Several consignments of birds have reached the British 

 Museum from Mr. Bates, and I have in the present paper 

 carried on my description of the collection to the Timeliid(e 

 and Turdidce. 



As before, Mr. Bates's original notes are signed with 

 his initials, and placed between square brackets []. 



205. Macrosphenus flavicans. 



Macrosphenus flavicans Cass. ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, 

 iii. p. 615 (1905). 



a. ? ad. Efulen, Dec. 12, 1902. 



No. 391. ? imm. Efulen, March 24, 1904. 



No. 1089. cT ad. Zima Country, Oct. 8, 1905. 



No. 2508. ^ ad. Bitye, River Ja. May 10, 1907. 



No. 391 seems to me to be a young bird, as it has the 

 throat greenish yellow, a little paler than the under-surface. 

 I would suggest that M. zenkeri of Reichenow may be the 

 young of M. flavicans. 



206. TURDINUS batesi, 



Turdinus batesi Sharpe ; id. Ibis, 1902, p. 94, pi. iv. fig. 2 ; 

 id. Hand-1. B. iv. p. 34 (1903). 



* P. Z. S. 1905, pt. i. p. 54 (Jan. 1905). 



t Cf. for previous papers : Sharpe, ' Ibis,' 1904, pp. 88, 591 ; ' Ibis,' 

 1905, p. 461 ; Bates, • Ibi?,' 1905, p. 89 , Sharpe, ' Ibis,' 1907, p. 416. 



