133 [Vol. xlii. 



Hartert in Nov. Zool. xxiv. p. 291, says, however, that he 

 cannot distinguish F. h. adamauce ivomF, h. tJiornei ! 



Bill 22, wing 195, tarsus 57 mm. 



Type, S' ad.. No. 6435. Near Jang, 5000 £t., Cameroon 

 Highlands, 18 October, 1921. G. L. Bates coll. 



Obs. The specimen from Yoko (below 2000 ft.), though 

 equally dark on the upper surface, has the underparts paler 

 and the black and white markings on the breast smaller. 



Mr. Bannerman further remarked on the curious distribu- 

 tion of F. bicalcaratus on the Guinea Coast. He pointed out 

 that the typical bird came from Senegal, and with it could 

 be united specimens from British and French Gambia, and 

 possibly Portuguese Guinea : these all being light-backed 

 birds. Further south in Sierra Leone and Liberia the dark 

 race F. h. thornei was found ; but a pale race, in the adult 

 impossible to distinguish from F. b. bicalcaratus, inhabited 

 the Gold Coast, Togoland, and Nigeria, as far east as the 

 Niger River. Mr. Bannerman believed that it would simplify 

 matters to name these birds^ if characters could be found to 

 separate them from Senegambian examples; he suggested 

 that characters might be found in the young or chicks when 

 these were collected. It appeared that we had in Cameroon 

 F. b. adamauoi in the extreme north, further south the hisli- 

 land form now described, and yet nearer the coast the 

 nameless dark-backed paler-breasted bird inhabiting the 

 Manenguba Mountains (c/. ' Ibis,' 1915, p. 645 ; 1922, p. 126). 



The Chairman said that he thouoht we ought to coneratu- 

 late most heartily our fellow-member of the B. 0. U. — 

 Mr. George Bates — on the success of his expedition. He 

 hoped that, when the collection came to be worked out by 

 Mr. Bannerman, still more rarities would come to lioLt. 

 The collection which Mr. Bates had sent home was evidently 

 of great value, especially as we had no material in England 

 from this little-known mountainous district. He wished 

 Mr. Bates every success in the fresh ex[jedition which he 

 was contemplating. 



