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Mr. D. A. Bannerman on rare Birds [Ibis, 
character, these Uganda specimens can only be referred to 
S. p. centralis. 
In S. p. zenkeri the female is said by Neumann in the 
original description to have the head and neck darker than 
in S. p. pulchra or S. p. centralis. Moreover, S. p. zenkeri 
is said by Neumann to be easily distinguished from both by 
having the upper side black, with but few brown bars, the 
intermediate black bars being from six to eight times broader 
than the brown bars. The black bars of the underside are 
also much broader than the brown ones; the tail is said to 
be black, with a few defined chestnut bars; the measurements 
are less than those of S. p. pulchra and S. p. centralis. 
Now, the female type of S.p. zenkeri came from Bipinde, 
and the habitat is said to be (< South Cameroon ” ; so when 
we recently received specimens of S. pulchra from Mr. Bates, 
collected at Bitye, R. Ja, S. Cameroon, I naturally expected 
these birds to be typical S. pulchra zenkeri. They do not, 
however, agree with the description o£ the type (which is in 
Berlin) any more than Sir Frederick Jackson’s birds from 
Uganda agree with Neumann’s description of S. p. centralis. 
In fact, the female birds which Mr. Bates obtained in 
southern Cameroon (Nos. 5443 and 5453) agree with female 
specimens from northern Angola, Tingasi, and Ndoruma, 
and only differ from Uganda birds in having the chestnut 
colour of the head, neck, and breast brighter. 
We cannot possibly accept Neumann’s name zenkeri for 
these birds, as the intermediate black bars on the back are 
only about three times as broad as the pale bars ( not six 
times broader as they are said to be in zenkeri ); the black 
and chestnut bars of the tail are about equal in breadth, and 
the tail cannot, therefore, by any stretch of imagination be 
called “black with a few defined chestnut bars”; moreover, 
the head and neck is, if anything, brighter chestnut than in 
S.p. centralis , not darker, as I gather Neumann infers his 
S.p. zenkeri to be, although in the original description this 
is very badly expressed. 
We h.ave the choice, therefore, of uniting birds from Lower 
