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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
marked with pinkish. In the series in the British Museum 
of forty specimens several are in the entire reddish phase 
out of which specimen No. 5168 is passing. 
The range of C. inornatus seems to be very peculiar if all 
the skins in the National Collection have been correctly 
identified. The following localities are represented there :— 
Southern Arabia, Bahr el Gha'zal, Somaliland, Abyssinia, 
British East Africa, Uganda, northern Belgian Congo. 
Alexander obtained the bird at Angu on the Uelle River 
and also on the Ubangi River in the Congo region. It is 
worthy of note that all the specimens obtained in the Belgian 
Congo and Cameroon were shot during the winter months, 
November to February. 
The occurrence of this Nightjar in Cameroon is of special 
interest. 
Caprimulgus binotatns. 
Caprimulgus binotatns Bonaparte, Conspect. Gen. Av. 
1850, p. 60—Type locality : Dabocrom, Gold Coast; Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1901, p. 612; Bates, Ibis, 1911, p. 516. 
Mr. Bates has now sent two more examples of this 
extremely rare and interesting Nightjar, and with great 
generosity has presented them with other rare things to the 
British Museum. 
He had already procured a single male bird at Efulen 
in March 1902, and this bird, which is in the National 
Collection, was duly recorded and commented upon by the 
late Dr. Sharpe (/. c.). The next specimen (No. 410?) was 
obtained at Bitve, River Ja, on the 19tli of February, 1910, 
and is likewise a male—the occurrence of this particular bird 
has already been noted by Mr. Bates (Ibis, 1911, p. 516). 
In this paper Mr. Bates remarked that in specimen 4107 
there was a distinct diagonal buff band on the feathers of 
the scapulars, and expressed his opinion that these characters 
were distinguishing marks of the male sex, “ supposing the 
original description to have been made from a female. - ” 
In this surmise Mr. Bates is perfectly correct, as he has now 
himself proved by securing yet a third example—a female 
