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Measurements of largest c? (No. 6179) : Bill (exposed) 

 17 mm.; wing 91*5; tail 54; tarsus 34; middle toe 

 including claw 36. 



Adult female. Differs from all known races of S. pulchra 

 in having the brown bars of the back broader, more 

 numerous, and of a brighter chestnut, as well as by its larger 

 size. 



Type, ? adult (No. 6347). Plain below Ribao, 3000 ft. 

 N.W. Cameroon Highlands, Gr. L. Bates coll. Bill (exposed) 

 16 mm. ; wing 88 ; tail 48 ; tarsus 33 ; middle toe including 

 claw 32. 



Range. Highlands of W. Cameroon, 3000-4600 ft., Tibati, 

 Genderu, Mbanti, Ribao. 



Immature male. Head and mantle mottled, the chestnut 

 feathers coming in amongst the darker grey-brown feathers ; 

 black feathers of back tipped and washed with rufous, 

 particularly on the wing-coverts ; white spots smaller. 

 Rufous tail barred with black as in the adult female. 

 Underparts grey, faintly washed with rufous ; white spots 

 absent, except the very faintest indications on flank- 

 feathers. 



Observation. The specimens here described have been 

 sent to the Berlin Museum for comparison, and Professor 

 Neumann writes that they have been compared with a large 

 series of 40 specimens of S. pulcJira. He concurs with me 

 that I am fully entitled to describe this race as new. I have 

 pleasure in here thanking Professor Neumann for his valued 

 assistance. 



The second race which I now propose to name inhabits 

 S. Cameroon (River Ja district) and N. Angola. The 

 characters which differentiate it from S. p. pulchra, S. p. 

 zenkeri, and S. p. centralis (to which latter species it is most 

 nearly allied) are fully set out by me in 'The Ibis,' 1921, 

 p. 117. From S. p. tihatiensis the female is easily distin- 

 guished by its smaller size, blacker biick, and narrower and 

 paler rufous bars. 



I propose to restrict the range of this bird to the districts 

 mentioned above and nor to include the N. Belgian Congo 



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