BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE BELGIAN CONGO 749 
BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE BELGIAN CONGO 
By HERBERT FRIEDMANN 
In June 1926, the Department of Tropical Medicine of the Harvard Univer- 
sity Medical school sent a large, well-equipped expedition to equatorial Africa to 
study the biological and medical problems of that region. The Expedition, under 
the leadership of Dr. R. P. Strong, went first to Liberia. Dr. Glover M. Allen 
accompanied the Expedition as Zoologist in this country and made extensive 
collections on which he has prepared special articles which are published in 
Chapters XX XIII and XXXIV of this Report. While in Liberia he gave 
additional instruction to two of the other members of the Expedition in collect- 
ing and preparing birds. That his efforts were not in vain is shown by the 
present collection made in the Belgian Congo by Mr. Loring Whitman, assistant 
Ornithologist and photographer, and by Dr. D. H. Linder, the Botanist of the 
Expedition, when time could be spared from their other duties. Great credit 
is due to both Whitman and Linder for the small but very creditable collection 
they made. The skins are well prepared and aside from their scientific value, 
constitute a welcome addition to the African collections of the Museum of Com- 
parative Zodlogy, where they now are. 
Of the specimens included in the present report the first were collected at 
Sao Thomé Island, on November 27, while on board ship en route from Liberia 
to the mouth of the Congo. The remainder were secured during the route of the 
Expedition along the Congo River from its mouth to Kabalo, thence by train to 
Albertville on Lake Tanganyika, by lake steamer to Uvira, thence on foot north 
along the Ruzizi valley to Lake Kivu, across Lake Kivu to Kibati, and the 
voleanic regions of Burunga and Lulenga, and thence to Angi and the Ruchuru 
plains. Here the Expedition was divided into several groups for special work, 
and the collecting of birds was not further pursued. 
Inasmuch as some of the collecting localities are not shown on most maps 
it may be well to list them with notes of their location. 
Anat: Belgian Congo, a short distance south of Ruchuru; about half-way between Lake Kivu 
and Lake Edward; 1° 15’ 8.; 29° 20’ E. 
Bupgsa-L1A: Belgian Congo, a short distance west of Budjalibala. 
BupsaLiBaLa: Belgian Congo, north bank of Congo River; approx. 2° N.; 20° 50’ E. 
Buxavu: Belgian Congo, south end of Lake Kivu; 2° 30’S.; 28° 50’ E. 
BumsBa: Belgian Congo, north bank of Congo River; approx. 2° 10! N.; 22° 30’ E. 
BurunGA: Belgian Congo, volcanic district north of Lake Kivu; 1° 30’S.; 29° 20’ B. 
Eranpvu: Belgian Congo, north bank of Congo River; approx. 1° 45’ N.; 23° 20’ E. 
KaMANIOLA: Belgian Congo, in the valley of Ruzizi River, a short distance south of Nya Gezi, 
north of Luvungi; 2° 45’ 8.; 29° E. 
Kassa: French Congo, near the junction of the Ubangi and the Congo rivers; 1° 10’ N.; 17° 25’ E 
Kipati: Belgian Congo, north of Lake Kivu; 1° 35’8.; 29° 20’ E. 
KinsHasa: Belgian Congo, short distance northeast of Leopoldville, at the southwest end of 
Stanley Pool; 4° 20’ S.; 15° 20’ E. 
Kwamourtu: Belgian Congo, at junction of Kasai and Congo rivers; 3° 20’ 8.; 16° 10’ E. 
Loanao: on the coast of French Congo; approx. 4° 35’ 8.; 11° 45’ E. 
