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time there are many examples of species obtained on the Pasha's last 

 expedition to the shores of the Albert Nyanza and the Monbuttu 

 country, and these are most interesting. We have no map to show 

 the last researches of Emin Pasha in this district, and therefore 

 some little time may elapse before all the places mentioned in this 

 paper are identified ; but the peculiar nature of the avifauna is 

 manifest. The collection is of the same character as that of Mr. 

 Bohndorff's from the Niam-niam country, and, as pointed out by 

 Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, is West African. 



On the western watershed of the lake-system of Equatorial Africa 

 the Abyssinian fauna disappears and is replaced by the purely- 

 tropical features of the West-African river-system: thus we find in 

 Emin Pasha's collection examples of such genera as Indicator, 

 Pyrenestes, and Spermospiza, purely West-African in character. To 

 point out the limits of these two diverse zoo-geographical areas will 

 be the work of an observer on the spot, and it is to be hoped that 

 Emin Pasha may be gifted with health for many years to come to 

 finish the work he has so well begun. 



This is the first consignment which the British Museum has 

 received from the Lado district, and it adds a large number of 

 species to the collection, besides the types of the four following new 

 species : — Indicator emini, Spermospiza ruficapilla, Ploceus casta- 

 nops, and Glareola emini. The further researches of the traveller 

 in the region of the AUiert Nyanza will be awaited with eagerness. 



In my present notes on this collection I have referred to the fol- 

 lowing papers, which deal with the former collections of Emin 

 Pasha : — 



1. " Beitrag zur Ornithologie der ostlich-aquatorialen Gebiete 

 Afrika's. Von Dr. G. Hartlaub, nach Sendlungen und Noten 

 von Dr. Emin Bey in Lado." Abhaudl. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 

 pp. 83, 128, pi. 5. 



2. "Ueber eine Sendung von Vogeln aus Central- Afrika. Von 

 August von Pelzeln." Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxi. 

 pp. 141-156. 



3. In the same volume pp. 605-618, is another article by Ilerr 

 von Pelzeln entitled " Ueber Dr. Emin Bey's zweite Sendung 

 von Vogeln aus Central- Afrika." 



4. In the next volume, pp. 499-512, is another article on Emin 

 Pasha's birds : — " Ueber Dr. Emin Bey's dritte Sendung von 

 Vogeln aus Central-Afrika." 



5. Dr. Hartlaub, in his " Zweiter Beitrag zur Ornithologie der 

 ostlich-aquatorialen Gebiete Afrika's," Abhandl. nat. Ver. 

 Brem. viii. 1882, pp. 184, 232, gives an enlarged map of Lado 

 and the country for about 100 miles to the south-east. This 

 paper includes a list of 276 species as having up to this time 

 been procured by Emin Pasha, also many of the collector's ori- 

 ginal notes, amongst which are the latitudes and longitudes of 

 some 17 of the little-known localities mentioned. I much 

 regret that I have not been able to continue this useful portion 



