120 On rare Birds collected in Southern .Cameroon. [Ibis, 
publish the notes which I made on the various forms while 
working through his birds. 
We had specimens from Cape Colony, Natal, Angola, 
Cameroon, Gaboon, Sierra Leone, British East Africa, and 
Uganda ; in addition to which a race had been described 
from the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, of which we 
had no examples. 
We recognised five distinct forms as follows :— 
1. Sarothrura rufa rufa (Vieill.)—Type! locality: 
“ Africa.” 
Range. Natal, Cape Colony, Transvaal. 
2. Sarothrura rufa lugens (Bohm)—Type locality : 
Ugalla (East of Lake Tanganyika). 
Range. East of Lake Tanganyika. 
3. Sarothrura rufa Elizabeths van Someren—Type 
locality : Kisumu. 
Range. Uganda, from Entebbe east to Elgon and 
Kisumu in Kenya Colony. 
4. Sarothrura rufa ansorgei van Someren — Type 
locality : Duque de Braganza. 
Range. Angola. 
5. Sarothrura rufa bonapartei (ITartl.)—Type locality : 
Gaboon. 
Range. Gaboon, Cameroon, extending north to Sierra 
Leone. 
We have no specimen of Sarothrura antonii (Madarasz & 
Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1911, p. 186—Ndassekera and 
Borders of Kenya Colony and Tanganyika Territory). 
Mr. Chapin thinks it will prove to be synonymous with 
S. lugens. 
Haplopelia simplex plumbescens. 
Haplopelia plumbescens Sharpe, Ibis, 1904, p. 95—Type 
locality : Efulen, S. Cameroon ; Bates, Ibis, 1911, p. 488. 
Mr. Bates has sent four more specimens of these 
interesting Pigeons—two males and two females. It is 
gratifying to find that these specimens fit in well with the 
key to the species which I prepared in my review of this 
