95 [ Vol. xxxix. 
He remarked that the birds he had brought for exhibition 
had heen obtained by Dr. Cuthbert Christy, who had spent 
many months in the Belgian Congo collecting on behalf of 
the Tervueren Museum. The collection of birds was now 
temporarily housed in the British Museum and had been 
placed in his hands to name, in return for which the Natural 
History Museum was to be permitted to retain a small 
selection of the skins. ‘The majority of the specimens had 
been collected in the Welle district and in the Ituri forest ; 
a general account of Dr. Christy’s journeys had already 
appeared in the ‘ Geographical Journal.’ 
Mr. Bannerman said that he did not propose to publish 
in ‘The Ibis’ or elsewhere a full account of the collection, 
as he could see very little use in recording the same species 
time after time from the same district ; he proposed, therefore, 
only to place on record the names of those birds which were 
either new to the locality, or which, owing to their extreme 
rarity, would be of interest to the members of the Club. 
As he had not been at work on this collection very long, lhe 
had only a few birds to show as a first instalment from the 
collection ; these were as follows :—- 
Centropus efulensis neumanni Boyd Alexander. 
This rare subspecies has hitherto been known from the 
type only—a bird obtained by Alexander at Angu on the 
Welle River on the 30th of January, 1906, and described by 
him in the Bull. B.O.C. vol. xxi. 1908, p. 78. 
Dr. Christy has now obtained two examples of this Black- 
throated Cuckoo, clase to the type-locality, in the Belgian 
Congo :— 
a. & adult (No. 1007). Poko, Welle River, 29.vii.1914. 
b. Nestling (No. 553). Medje, Ituri Forest, 21.iv.1914. 
The adult bird is, as Alexander described it, similar to 
C. efulensis Sharpe, but smaller, and I consider that it can 
only be a subspecies of the Cameroon bird. Chiristy’s bird 
has a wing-measurement of 18] mm. as against 171 mm. in 
the type, also an adult male ; while the wing of the only 
