from Efulen in Camaroon. 621 



tion, wanting the red on the forehead and the reddish-brown 

 tint on the under parts, which are dull slaty grey with a 

 slight wash of greenish olive. 



82. Pitta pulih. 



Pitta angolensis (nee V.) Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 

 p. 422 (1888) ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1896, p. 19 j Sharpe, 

 Hand-1. iii. p. 180 (1901). 



No. 357. ? ad. Efulen, Feb. 19, 1904. 



The interesting paper of Dr. Finsch (Notes Leyden Mus. 

 xxiii. pp. 206-212) has disclosed an unexpected confusion 

 in the nomenclature of the African Pittas. Up to recent 

 times, the name of P. angolensis was employed for the common 

 Pitta of West Africa, with P. pulih Fraser for a synonym. 

 Dr. Finsch points out that the type of P. angolensis Vieill. 

 was from the Congo, and obtained by Perrein; the type 

 was figured by Des Murs (Iconogr. Orn. pi. 46), and the 

 species has been lately described by lleichenow as P. longi- 

 pennis. The Leyden Museum possesses a specimen from 

 Boma on the Lower Congo, and the range of the species is 

 thus traced from the latter locality to Mashona-land and 

 Lake Nyasa {cf. Finsch, t. c. p. 210). The widely distributed 

 Pitta angolensis of authors, but not of Vieillot, has therefore 

 to bear the name of Pitta pulih of Fraser. 



83. Pitta reichenowi. 



Pitta reichenowi Madarasz, Orn. MB. 1901, p. 133; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1903, p. 91, pi. iv. fig. 1. 



Nos. 314, 317. S ? • Kiver Ja, Dec. 28, 29, 1903. 



This is an entirely new locality for this Pitta, which was 

 previously known onlv from the Central Congo (cf. Sharpe, 

 I.e.). 



84. PsALIDOPROCNE PETITI. 



Psalidoprocne petiti Sharpe & Bouvier; Sharpe, Hand-1. 

 iii. p. 202 (1901) ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, ii. p. 428 (1903). 



No. 76. <J . River Ja, Feb. 1903. 



No. 437. Efulen, April 8, 1904. 



These birds quite agree with typical specimens from the 

 Coii'jro. 



