APPHXDIX H 



A Synopsis of Herr C. G. Schillings' 

 Collection of Birds 



PROFESSOR A. REICHENOW 



WITH REMARKS UPON THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND HABITS 

 BY C. <;. SCHILLINGS 



\The references followed by numerals give the name of t lie place and i lie- 

 dale at which the specimens were secured^ 



THE collection of birds brought together by Herr 

 C. G. Schillings, as the result chiefly of his last 

 three expeditions in East Africa, and in part presented 

 by him to the Royal Zoological Museum in Berlin, com- 

 prises more than 1,000 skins, belonging to 355 species, 

 and is one of the most comprehensive ever yet achieved 

 in those regions. Unfortunately, a number of other 

 skins about 350 in all were lost by the collector during 

 their transport to Europe. 



Besides five newly discovered forms namely, Pseudo- 

 gyps africanus schillirgsi EH. ; Ploceits schillingsi, Rchw. ; 

 Erythropygia plebeia, Rchw. ; Cisticola schillingsi, Rchw. ; 

 and Calamocichla schillingsi, Rchw. a number of these 

 have now been found for the first time in the country 

 traversed, such as Rccitrrirostra avocetta ; Enpodotis 



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