KOTES ON BIRDS FEOM THE CAMEROONS DTSTRIOT, 



WEST AFRICA. 



By Harry O. Oberholser, 



Assistant Biologist, Department of Agriculture. 



The U. S. l^ational Museum has recently acquired a small collection 

 of birds made by Mr. G. L, Bates in the Oaraeroons District of West 

 Africa. At the request of the curator of the Division of Birds the 

 writer has prepared the following report upon this collection which, 

 though it contains no novelties, comprises several species of consider- 

 able interest; and the data from the labels has been supplemented by 

 such critical remarks upon the specimens as the circumstances appear 

 to make desirable, including the creation of a new genus for the recep- 

 tion of the species commonly known as Andropadus virens. 



The 59 specimens are referable to 32 species, and are nearly all from 

 Efulen — or Ebfulla, as it is called on German maps — in the Njondo 

 River region, about 100 miles inland. Only two specimens, one each 

 of Geratogymna airata and Aotitis hypoleuca, are from elsewhere, they 

 coming from Batanga on the coast. The dates of collecting range 

 from May 30 to August 3, but a large proportion of the specimens were 

 taken in June. 



Family SCOLOPACID.^. 



ACTITIS HYPOLEUCA (Linnaus). 



Tringa hypoleticos LinntEUS, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, 1758, p. 149. 

 Actitis hypoleucos Illigek, Prodr., 1811, p. 262. 



One specimen in worn plumage, taken at Batanga, August 3, 1895. 

 Family TRERONID^. 



VINAGO CALVA (Temminck and Knip). 



Columha calva Temminck and Knip. Pig., I, 1808, p. 35, pi. 7. 

 Vinago calva Stephens, Gen. Zool., XI, Pt. 1, 1819, p. 117. 



One male, undoubtedly adult, although the gray collar on the hind 

 neck is rather indistinct, being strongly tinged with the olive green of 

 the upper surface. 



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