collected in Southern Cameroon. 
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and the underparts heavily banded. The species to which 
it belongs may very possibly be new, but, without adult 
examples, must remain indeterminable. We must, however, 
recognise 
1. Cercococcyx mechowi mechowi Cabanis : restricted 
to Angola ; 
2. Cercococcyx mechowi wellsi Bannerman : Cameroon 
(typical), Belgian Congo, Uganda, Ruwenzori ; 
and perhaps 
3. Cercococcyx mechowi ? subsp. : Gold Coast; 
4. Cercococcyx, sp. or subsp. indeterminable : S. Angoni- 
land, Ny as aland ; 
5. Cercococcyx mechowi olivinus Sassi, which I have 
not seen. 
Caprimulgus europseus europaeus. 
Caprimulgus europaeus Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, 
p. 193—Type locality : Sweden. 
I mention a bird of this species which Mr. Bates shot on 
the 8th of December, 1913, as there are far too few refer¬ 
ences to European migrants in ornithological literature to 
allow us to omit to record any really authentic specimen. 
Caprimulgus inornatus. 
Caprimulgus inornatus Heuglin, Orn. Nordost-Afrika's, 
i. 1869, p. 129—Type locality : Bogosland. 
No. 3422. ? . Bitye, River Ja, 13 February, 1909. 
No. 5168. S • Bitye, River Ja, 14 December, 1912. 
Specimen No. 3422 has already been recorded by 
Mr. Bates (Ibis, 1911, p. 516) as Macrodipteryx macro- 
dipt erus, but I do not think there can be any question but 
that Mr. Bates has identified his bird wrongly. Without a 
large series for comparison it would have been impossible to 
name this Nightjar, which, as has already been pointed out^ 
is not fully grown. Curiously enough, another example of 
this Nightjar, which has never previously been taken in 
Cameroon, was secured by Mr. Bates in 1912. In this bird 
the head, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts are strongly 
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