APPENDIX B 



A Synopsis of Herr C. G. Schillings' 

 Collection of Birds 



COM ri LED \',V 



PROFESSOR A. REICHENOW 



WITH REMARKS UPON THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS 

 BY C. G. SCHILLINGS 



[77/(' references foUc-ii'ed by miiiierals give h'le name of fJie place ami the 

 dale at 'ehicJi tlie specimens 'n't re secmrd.^ 



THE collection ot lairds brought together by Herr 

 C. G. Schillings, as the result chiefly of his last 

 three expeditions in Past Africa, and in part pres(mted 

 bv hini to the Rf)yal Zoological Museum in Berlin, com- 

 prises more than i,oco skins, belonging to 355 species, 

 and is one of the most comprehensive ever yet achieved 

 in those regions. Unfortunately, a number ot other 

 skins---about ^^o in all — were lost by the collector during' 

 their transport to PL u rope. 



Besides five newly discovered forms — namely, Psciido- 

 gvps afficauiis scJiil/uigsi Erl. ; P/oceiis sclu/liuosi, Rchw. ; 

 Erythropygia plebeia, Rchw. ; Cisiicola scJiUliiiosi, Rchw. ; 

 and Calainocichla schillingsi. Rchw. — a number of these 

 have now been found for the first time in the country 

 traversed, such as Rccuri'ii-oslra avoccita ; Eiipodotis 



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