1921 .] collected in Southern Cameroon . Ill 
Phalaropus fulicarius. 
Tringa fulicaria Linn. Syst. Nat. 10th ed. 1758, p. 148 
—Type locality : Hudson Bay. 
The interesting occurrence of the Grey Phalarope in 
Cameroon is worth recording here. Mr. Bates shot a male 
at Bitye on the 27th of March, 1912. The Grey Phalarope 
is said in the B. O. U. List of British Birds to be an 
accidental visitor to North-West Africa; nothing is said of 
its ranging in Africa down the west coast. The present 
is the most southerly record of which I am aware. Mr. P. R. 
Lowe obtained it at sea near the Cape Yerde Islands and 
Mr. C. Chubb has recorded it from Liberia. 
Canirallus oculeus batesi. 
Canirallus batesi Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. x. 1900, p. lvi.— 
Type locality: Rio Benito, French Congo; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1904, p. 95. 
Sharpe separated as a distinct species the Rail, inhabiting 
the French Congo and Cameroon, from the allied Cani¬ 
rallus oculeus of the Gold Coast. In any case C. batesi 
is but a subspecies of C. oculeus , and indeed is so close to 
that form that Reichenow unites all birds from Liberia to 
the Congo under one name. I do not think he is correct 
in doing so, as the Gold Coast birds, of which we have five 
specimens in the British Museum, are distinctly paler olive- 
green on the upper parts, with less of a rufous tinge than is 
exhibited by most of the birds from Cameroon and the 
Rio Benito. 
The two birds just sent home by Mr. Bates are a male and 
female (Nos. 4671 and 4426). The female is much more 
rufous on the neck and nape than the male, which is more 
olive above and has the underparts paler reddish-chestnut 
than the female. 
Himantornis hsematopus hsematopus. 
Rimantornis hcematopus Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 357—Type 
locality : Habocrom, Gold Coast; Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 95, 
1907, p. 421; Bates, Ibis, 1911, p. 483. 
