— iqi — 



The Black Fern occurs on ihe coast ot West AtViea in winter 

 ranging as far sonth as Loango. 



We hâve Atrican spécimens from Sierra Leone, Cîold Coast, 

 Cameroun, Gaboon, Natal and Bechnanaland. 



Family HELIOKNITHIUAE. 



Podica senegalensis senegalensis. 



Hcliornis senegalensis Vikii.i.., Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat., XIV, 

 1817, p. 277. — l\vpe localitv : Sénégal. 



An example of the Sénégal Fintoot was shot on the Ogun 

 river near Lagos bv Mr. Lowe on 27th December, 1919. 

 Mr. 1'. A. T-MUOf obtained it at Oban on I2th Januarv, U)i2, and 

 Mr. \V. W. LowEi.i, a chick in down at Anambra Creek, S. Nigeria 

 on 6th October, 1905. 



There are probably three races of the smaller Finfoot. 



1. — Podica sexegai.ensis senegalensis. 



Cf. supra. 



Ran^e. — Sénégal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, 

 S. Nigeria. 



2. — Podica senegalensis camerunensis. 



Podica caineruncnsis (Sjôstedt, Orn. Monatsber., 1893, p. 42. — 

 Tvpe localitv : Bonge, Cameroon Mt. 



Range. — Cameroon. 



3. — Podica senegalensis subsp. 



Range. — Highlands of Kenya Colony and Nyasaland to Cape 

 Colonv. 



Observatioti. — 1 hâve not examined anv material from East or 

 South Africa. Mr. W. L. Sclatek believes this bird vvill prove to 

 be a distinct forni. 



