416 Dr. R. B. Sharpe on Birds 
XXI.—On further Collections of Birds from the Efulen 
District of Camaroon, West Africa. By KR. Bown ier 
SHarre, LL.D. With Notes by the Collector, G. L. Bates. 
—Part IV.* 
(Plate X.) 
Our indefatigable friend Mr. G. L. Bates has sent some 
further collections from Camaroon, which, as will be seen, 
contain examples of many interesting species. The series 
from the Zima Country did not turn out prolific of new 
species, but that from the River Ja has proved of con- 
siderable importance, particularly in the re-discovery of 
the beautiful Diaphorophyia ansorgei of Hartert, of which 
only the single type specimen from Angola, now in 
Mr. Rothschild’s museum, was known. 
As in my preceding papers, I have added a few notes on 
the species already recorded by me, but the principal portion 
of the present essay deals with the Passerine birds collected 
by Mr. Bates near Efulen, on the River Ja, and in the Zima 
Country. It is noteworthy that the new Geacichla (a 
wonderful discovery of Mr. Bates, to whom I have dedicated 
the species) was procured by him in the Efulen district, 
where he has long worked, so that there may yet be some 
more novelties to be found in that locality. 
Mr. Bates has sent interesting notes on some of the 
species. To these his initials are appended in square 
brackets. 
58. Francotinus LATHAM! Hartl.; Sharpe, [bis, 1904, p.93. 
Nos. 1175. gad; 1212. 9 juv... River, Ja; Dec.-2), 50; 
1905: 
No. 1206. ? ad. River Ja, Dec. 29, 1905. 
No. 1596. 2 juv. * March 23, 1906. 
The nestling has not such distinct white stripes as the 
adult, the shaft-streaks being sandy buff, while the scapulars 
* Cf. for previous papers: Sharpe, ‘Ibis, 1904, pp. 88, 591; ‘ Ibis,’ 
1905, p. 461 ; Bates, ‘ Ibis,’ 1905, p. 89. 
