143 [Vol. xliii. 



Campothera batesi, sp. no v. 



Adult female. In the colouring o£ the upper parts this 

 new species resembles C. punctuligera punctiiligera, but the 

 difference on the under surface is very marked. The ground- 

 colour is pale yellowish-ochre, covered from the chin to 

 the under tail-coverts with rather large round black spots, 

 which become heavier on the flanks and under tail-coverts, 

 and which run into bars on some o£ the feathers of the flanks. 

 The chin and throat are also covered with spots, not speckles 

 as in C. p. punctuligera. 



The first primary is much longer than in C. p. punctuligera. 



Bill (circa 25 mm., tip broken), wing 116, tail 75, 

 tarsus 19 mm. 



Type, ? ad. 35 miles N. of Ngaundere, 2500 ft., N.W. 

 Cameroon, 4th November, 1922. G. L. Bates coll. 



Anomalospiza imberbis tibatiensis, subsp. nov. 



Adult male. Very similar in colouring to a specimen in 

 the British Museum from the Transvaal (which is named 

 Anomalospiza rendalli, but which may prove to be synony- 

 mous with A. imberbis imberbis). 



The bird here described differs from rendalli in its much 

 smaller size, particularly in the smaller bill, the under man- 

 dible of which is less swollen. The underparts are brighter 

 in the new race than in any other specimens of Anomalospiza 

 which I have examined, and the head is more orange. 



Bill 10, wing 62, tail 36, tarsus 14 mm. 



Type. No. 6978, near Tibati, Cameroon Highlands, 

 2850 ft., 10th October, 1922. Gr. L. Bates coll. 



Anomalospiza rendalli, with which I have compared this 

 new race, has a wing-measurement of 71 mm. 



Note. — With the above race I unite a skin which was 

 obtained by Mr. Robin Kemp at Bo, Sierra Leone, in 1903, 

 and which for lack of material from West Africa we have 

 refrained from naming before. This bird has a wing- 

 measurement of 65 mm. and trifle larger bill than the Tibati 

 bird. 



Dr. van Someren in the Nov. Zool, xxix. 1922, p. 147, 



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