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species. In eastern and southern Africa, it seeks the densest woods 

 and thickets. In the rain forest of the Cameroon and Congo, however, 

 the very distinct Guttera plumifera occupies the virgin forest, along 

 with Phasidus niger. Guttera e. seth-smithi is limited to the border 

 régions of the forest, frequenting the old grown-up clearings at its 

 edges, or the dense gallery forests of the nearby savanna districts, 

 as well as isolated forest patches in Uganda. 



In the Congo Muséum, to be sure, there is an old mounted spécimen 

 of seth-smithi, labeled Bumba; but my expérience in the Uelle and 

 Itury districts leads me to believe that more probably this spécimen 

 was secured in the Uelle. 



Hence it is the equatorial forest, which séparâtes the ranges of 

 seth-smithi and schoutedeni. The district w.here they might be expected 

 to meet is the Manyema, but we hâve no records of crested Guinea 

 Fowl from that southeastern border of the Congo forest. G. e. 

 sclateri, again, is found along the northern edge of the Cameroon 

 forest; for at the River Ja Bâtes has collected only plumifera. 



Taxonomic Re marks. — Professor Reichenow (r) has admitted 

 four species of Guttera : cristata (with 3 or 4 races), pucherani, sclateri, 

 and plumifera. He considered G. e. suahelica Neumann synonymous 

 with granti. G. sclateri is of course only a géographie race. Professor 

 Ghigi, in his important monograph on the Numidinae (2), listed 8 

 forms binomially; but barbata and lividicollis, described by him, are 

 not generally recognized. Although barbata may be a valid form, it 

 probably never came from Madagascar, but is more likely the same 

 subspecies as that from the neighborhood of Mikindani, which 

 Grote (3) later named as makondorum. They are both said to lack 

 any trace of red on the bare skin of the head, but o.herwise resemble 

 G. e. granti. Still nearer to granti is G. e. suahelica Neumann (4), 

 with the lower part of the fore neck and a small spot below the eye 



(1) Vôgel Afrikas, I, 1901, pp. 450-453; — Wiss. Ergeb. Deutsch. Zentral-Afr. Exp., 

 III, Lfg. 8, 1910, p. 257. 



(2) Memorie R. Accad. Sci. Bologna, Cl. Sci. Fisc, Ser. VI, vol. VII, 1910, pp. 71-105. 



(3) Journ. f. Orn., LX, 1912, p. 514. 



(4) Bull. Brit. Orn. CL, XXIII, 1908, p. 14. 



