— 35° — 



ScLATER in Shelleys, Birds of Africa, V, p. 253 remarks that 

 « a séries collected by Ansorge at Ndala Tando, in Northern 

 Angola, are certainly quite indistinguishable frora typical West 

 African birds in this respect. » I do not agrée with Sclater, the 

 Ndala Tando séries are to iny eyes much browner on the upper 

 surface than typical spécimens and I therefore propose to keep iip 

 Reichenow's Angolan race. I do not however recognise Rei- 

 CHENOw's /^. c. cameroonensis described from Adamawa and said 

 to differ from sniithi in having the upper tail-coverts entirely grey 

 like the rump and the outer tail-feathers with a very broad white 

 outer margin. 



In West Africa we hâve therefore : 



1. — FiSCUS COLLARIS SMITHI. 



Cf. supra. 



2. FiSCUS COLLARIS CONGICUS. 



Laniiis hmneralis congicus Rchw., J. f. O., 1902, p. 258 : Angola. 



Range. — Northern Angola eastwards through? S. Belgian 

 Congo to the Great Lakes. 



Distinguishing characters. — Back more sooty, outer tail 

 feathers black with only the tip and outer-web white. 



Observation. — I hâve only seen birds from N. Angola and one 

 spécimen from the Ruwenzori district which appear to agrée with 

 Reichenow's description. Birds from the N. Belgian Congo agrée 

 better with F. c. suiithi. 



Of other African forms we hâve : 



3,. — FiSCUS COLLARIS COLLARIS (LiNN.). 



Range. — Cape Colony, Namaqualand, Natal, Orange River 

 Colony. 



Type locality. — Cape of Good Hope. 



