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Othyphantes baglafeclit neumanni, subsp. nov. 



Adult male. Similar to 0. haglafeclit haglafecht iTom 

 Abyssinia, but the mantle and back are deeper and brighter 

 green ; forehead not so yellow, paler, and with hardly any 

 chestnut wash which is so apparent in birds from Abyssinia. 

 Tlie dirty-white belly is rather more sharply defined fronqi 

 the yellow of the chest, and there are more yellow feathers 

 amongst the white in typical birds than in the specimens from 

 Cameroon. The bill is somewhat longer in the new race. 



Wings of eight males measure 80-84, and of four females 

 75-80 mm. 



Type. (J ad. Banso Mountains, N. of Kumbo, 6000 feet, 

 23rd Sept., 1921 (No. 6B59). G. L. Bates coll. 

 . Obs. This is an interesting example of a species con- 

 fined to a highland district turning up hundreds of miles 

 from its known habitat without having been obtained aily- 

 whiere in the iriteriiiediate neighbourhood. 0. b. baglafeclit 

 is confined to the mouhtaihs of Abyssinia, and never descends 

 much below 6000 feet. Mr. Bates found the race I have 

 here described in the Banso Mountains, between 5500 feet 

 and 6000 feet, on the Nigerian-Cameroon boundary, some 

 1700 miles as the crow flies from the type-locality of 0. b. 

 baglafeclit. 



Before naming this bird I have had to send specimens to 

 Professor Neumann, who has been to considerable pains 

 to compare the birds with specimens in various museums in 

 Germany and Belgium. I name the bird in his honour, 

 in grateful acknowledgment of the trouble he has taken on 

 my behalf. 



Lord Rothschild exhibited a Courser from Fuerte- 

 ventura, and remarked as follows : — 



Dr. Hartert, in his ' Vogel der palaearktischer Fauna,' 

 •p. 1526, No. 1872, described the Cape Verd Island Courser 

 as a new race, under the name of Cursorius gallicus exsul, 

 and gave the differences as the brighter and more reddish 

 coloration of the sides of the head and breast, and he 



