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NOTE XXII. 



ON BIRDS FROM THE CONGO AND SOUTH 

 WESTERN AFRICA. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOPER. 



(Plate 9). 



The bird-collections, treated of in this paper, have been 

 made by Mr. P. J. van der Keilen ^) in the region of 

 the Upper Cunene and east of it in the valleys of the 

 Okovango- and Umbella River. Before the collector reached 

 these localities , he had a short stay on the Lower Congo 

 (24 Sept.— 22 Oct. 1884) where he happened to collect 

 13 species, which will be mentioned at the head of the 

 following list. 



In the very short reports, sent over together with the 

 collections , nothing is told about the habits of the speci- 

 mens obtained, and as the birds of this region are very 

 thoroughly and exhaustively treated of by Mr. Sharpe in 

 his second edition of Layard's Birds of South Africa, as 

 well as by Prof. Barbosa du Bocage in his » Ornithologie 

 d'Angola", there is but little left to say on van der Kellen's 

 South West African collection. This latter contains about 

 300 specimens, representing 131 diiferent species. Two of 

 the latter are new, while several others are very rare 

 birds. The following are the places and dates, at which 

 Mr. van der Keilen has obtained his specimens. 



1) See: Dr. Jentink, on Mammals from Mossamedes (N. L. M. 1887, p. 171). 



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