ON BIRDS FROM S. W. AFRICA. 65 



NOTE XVI. 



ON A NEW COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 

 SOUTH WESTERN AFRICA. 



BY 



J. BÜTTIKOFER. 



(Plate 4). 



Shortly after ray previous paper on South African Birds 

 had left the press, our Museum received a new collection 

 from Mr. van der Keilen, who seems still to stay at his 

 head-quarters in the Colony of Boers at Humpata, in the 

 Upper Cunene region. This recent collection contains the 

 considerable number of 267 birds-skins, representing 103 

 different species , 49 of which are not contained in his 

 former consignments and thus not mentioned in my pre- 

 vious list. Of these 49 species , which in this paper will 

 be marked with an asterisk , two proof to be new to science. 



All the birds are collected during the first trimester of 

 1888, and the only locality mentioned is Gain bos, in 

 the Upper Cunene region. The aforesaid 49 species added 

 to those of the former consignments , the species we hi- 

 therto received from that country will reach the con- 

 siderable number of 180. 



1. A q uil a rap ax (Tenim.). — Two females, one 

 of which (N°. 429) has the upper surface, sides of head 

 and neck and the breast very dark, with but few longi- 

 tudinal stripes of fawn-color. 



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