APPENDIX. 



BIRDS. 



ON THE BIRDS COLLECTED BY DR. ANSORGE 

 DURING HIS RECENT STAY IN AFRICA. 



By ERNST HARTERT. 



HAVING been asked by Dr. Ansorge to name the birds 

 he collected in Africa, I herewith give a list of the 

 two hundred and sixteen species he obtained. 

 This collection is scientifically of much interest, not 

 only because it contains some species which hitherto have not 

 been described, but because he has found a number of birds of 

 which formerly only one or two specimens were known, some 

 of them having been unique in the Berlin Museum. By record- 

 ing the localities where he found them, he has extended con- 

 siderably our knowledge of the distribution of certain species, 

 and in other cases he has added valuable confirmation of facts 

 which hitherto were open to doubt. Very interesting forms, 

 among others, are the Francolins, of which Dr. Ansorge col- 

 lected some very rare ones ; the new Guinea-fowl, which I 

 have called Njnnida ansorgei ; the rare Woodpecker, Cavipothera 

 tiBuiolcBuia ; the Swift (No. 73), a tropical ally of our common 

 swift of Europe ; several of the Flycatchers and Shrikes ; the 

 new Pyronielaiia and some of the other Weaver-birds ; the 

 Larks ; a number of Sun-birds ; some of the TvneliidcF, and 

 others. During his former stay in Uganda Dr. Ansorge dis- 

 covered a new Barbet, described as Tricholavia ansorgii by 

 Shelley in Bull. B. O. Club. vol. v. p. 3 (1895). 



Tring, September 1898. 



