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and these all belong to the same race and must be known as 
Sarothrura pulchra pulchra. 
Hitherto this species has been said by Sharpe (Cat. Bds.) 
and Reichenow (Vogel Afrikas, i. p. 286) to range from 
Senegambia to Gaboon and Angola, east to the Congo. 
Neumann (Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 45) describes two races 
of S. pulchra :— 
(A) S. p. centralis —Type loc. : Mswa, on the west shore 
of Lake Albert. Habitat. Lake Region of Central 
Africa. 
(B) S. p. zenkeri —Type loc.: Bipinde, S. Cameroon. 
Habitat. South Cameroon. 
In both, the males are almost indistinguishable from 
S. p. pulchra, and the females are therefore best dealt with 
separately. 
In the first place, the female of S. p. pulchra has the 
ground-colour of the back black, closely barred with pale 
chestnut; the bars of pale chestnut and the bars of black are 
almost the same width. This is an important point to bear 
in mind. The black bars on the tail are, moreover, either 
wanting or only faintly indicated. 
In the original description of S. p. centralis the female is 
said to be similar to the female of S. p. pulchra , but the tail 
has broad black bars, while in S. p. pulchra it is uniform 
chestnut or with only an indication of thin black bars. 
Now, I have before me five females from the Jackson 
collection, collected at Mabira and Bugoma, Uganda. These 
birds bear out the character of the broadly banded tail, but 
they can be distinguished from S. p. pulchra much more 
readily by the barring on the upper parts (which from 
Neumann's description one would imagine to be similar to 
the barring in S. p. pulchra). The pale chestnut bars are, 
however, much narrower than the black bars, which are at 
least three times as wide as the pale bars. Thus the back 
has a much blacker appearance than in typical specimens. 
Although Neumann has omitted to mention this striking 
