168 Capt. G. E. Shelley on Birds 



58. Cypselus apus. 



Cypselus apus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 142 (1870) . 

 One specimen without label, but doubtless from Yambuya. 



59. CHiETURA CASSINI. 



Chatura cassini, Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 205 (Gaboon). 

 An adult bird from Yambuya. 



60. Ch^tura sabinei. 



Chcetura sabinei, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 25 (1857). 

 One specimen from Yambuya. 



61. Mesopicus xantholophus. 



Dendropicus africanus, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 312 (1876) (nee Gray). 



Mesopicus xantholophus, Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, pp. 173,421 ; 

 Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 430 (1884) ; Rchw. J. f. O. 

 1887, p. 302 (Leopoldville). 



Originally described from Gaboon, this species was also 

 found on the Lower Congo by Lucan and Petit, and after- 

 wards by Bohndorff in the Niam-Niam country. It evi- 

 dently extends throughout the Congo region. 



62. Campothera. permista. 



Campothera maculosa, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 17 (1876) (nee Sw.). 



Campothera permista, Sharpe & Bouvier, t. c. p. 312; 

 Hargitt, Ibis, 1883, p. 478; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 p. 431 (1884) ; Rchw. J. f. O. 1887, p. 302 (Leopoldville). 



Another Gaboon species which inhabits the Lower Congo 

 and evidently extends throughout the entire Congo region to 

 the Niam-Niam country. 



63. COLIUS NIGRICOLLIS. 



Colitis nigricollis, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, i. p. 50 (1876) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 

 p. 434 (1884) . 



Ad., Yambuya. 



64. Chrysococcyx klaasi. 



Cuculus klaasii, Sharpe & Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 i. p. 52 (1876); Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 433 



(1884). 



