V'ol. xxi.] 54 



colour, with markings of a paler and darker shade^ but with 

 no distinct black or rufous-buff markings. 



Through the kindness of Dr. van Oort, Prof. Neumann 

 had been able to compare the series from Benguella in the 

 Tring Museum with the types of P. bicinctus, Temminck. 

 These latter had been procured by Levaillant at the Great 

 Fish River, German S.W. Africa, and were found to be 

 absolutely identical with the Benguella birds both in size and 

 colour. 



[The differences between the paler examples of P. bicinctus 

 from Damaraland and the darker forms from the Transvaal 

 have already been pointed out \cf. Cat. Birds Be M. xxii. 

 p. 31, footnote (1893)]. As already noted in that work, 

 examples from Kuruman, in the British Museum, form a 

 perfectly intermediate link between the paler western and 

 darker eastern birds. — Ed.] 



Prof. Neumann described and exhibited examples of the 

 following new African birds collected by Mr. Rudolf Grauer 

 on the Upper Kagera River and on the western chain of the 

 Kivu Volcanoes. The type specimens were preserved in the 

 Tring Museum : — 



RUWENZOBORNIS JONHSTONI KIVUENSIS, Subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar to R. j. johnstoni, Sharpe, from 

 Ruwenzori_, but at once distinguished by having the area 

 between the bill and the eye and below the latter feathered, 

 and covered with metallic green plumage ; the culmen is 

 more elevated at the basal part than in R. j. johnstoni. 



Hab. Western Kivu Volcanoes. 



Type : S- 27. viii. 07. (2400 m.) 



Obs. The fact that this second form of Ruwenzorornis has 

 the region before and below the eye feathered renders it 

 necessary to modify the generic characters originally given, 

 the shape of the bill and the longitudinal nostrils being 

 now the only characters that distinguish this genus from 

 Gallirex. 



