57 [Vol. xxi. 



and belly. Bill red ; feet light brown or yellow. Wing 113- 

 120 mm, 



Hab. Western Kivu Volcanoes. 



Type : ? . Bamboo Forest (2300-2400 m.), 23. viii. 07. 



Prof. Neumann also described and (with the exception 

 of Apus reichenowi and Lagonosticta rara forbesi) exhibited 

 examples of the following new African birds : — 



Centura ussheri benguellensis, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Similar to C. u. stictUama, Reich., from East 

 Africa, but paler brown. Wing 139 mm. 



Hab. Benguella. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (J . Blasbalk Fontein, 

 26. xi. 05 : W. J . Ansorge coll. 



Ch^tura ussheri sharpei, subsp. n. 



Ch(Btura st'ictolccma, Sharpe (nee Reich.), Ibis, 1904, 

 p. 612. 



Adult male and female. Similar to C u. ussheri, Sharpe, 

 from the Gold Coast, but larger and much darker, the upper- 

 side being almost black with a faint greenish gloss. The 

 white band across the abdomen is very narrow and slightly 

 separated from the white baud across the rump, which is 

 likewise much narrower than in C. u. ussheri ; the feathers 

 of the throat with a dark sooty-black basal portion and a 

 broad sooty-black margin, giving the throat a scaled ap- 

 pearance, very different from that of C. u. stictilama and 

 C. u. benguellensis. Wing. 143-148 mm. 



Hab. South Camaroon. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Efulen, 15. iv. 02 : 

 W. L. Bates coll. 



Apus reichenowi, sp. n. 



Adult male. Similar in colour and size to A. eequatorialis, 

 v. Midi., but the feathers of the under surface are without 



