BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE BELGIAN CONGO Vol 
Circus macrourus (Gmelin) 
Accipiter macrourus Gmelin, Nov. Comm. Acad. Petropol. xv, p. 439, pl. viii, ix, 1771 (pr. 1770): 
Woronez. 
Female, Bumba, 1 January 1927. 
This bird is darker than a female, in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, 
from Dinder River, eastern Sudan. 
Phasianidae 
Francolinus squamatus zappeyi (Mearns) 
Francolinus schuetti zappeyt Mearns, Smiths. Mise. Coll., lvi, no. 20, p. 4, 1911: eastern shore of 
Lake Victoria. 
Female, Kibati, 25 March 1927. 
The flanks, thighs, and lower abdomen are bare in this specimen. This is a 
valid race and includes dowashanus as a synonym. 
Rallidae 
Crecopsis egregia (Peters) 
Ortygometra egregia Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Berlin, 1854, p. 134: Tete, Zambesi. 
Male, off Loango, French Congo, 29 November 1926. 
This bird flew on board ship fifteen or twenty miles off shore. The compara- 
tive material of this species available for study is slight, but the present specimen 
is noticeably darker above and below than a male from Metet, Cameroon. 
Limnocorax flavirostra (Swainson) 
Gallinula flavirostra Swainson, Birds West Africa, 1, p. 244, pl. 28, 1887: Senegal. 
Male, female, Bukavu, 6 February 1927. 
The female is darker and smaller than the male. 
Balearicidae 
Balearica regulorum gibbericeps Reichenow 
Balearica gibbericeps Reichenow, Jour. f. Orn., 1892, p. 126: Lake Jipe (near Kilimanjaro). 
Ad. unsexed, Kamaniola, 1 February 1927. 
Downy chick, unsexed, s. w. foot Mt. Mikeno, 22 March 1927. 
The downy chick was taken from a nest containing two young. The nest 
was in a boggy meadow at an altitude of 7,250 ft. 
The native name is recorded as “‘malu.” 
Charadriidae 
Afroxyechus forbesi (Shelley) 
Aegialitis tricollaris forbesi Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 560: Shonga on the Niger. 
Female, Bumba, 2 January 1927. 
This apparently constitutes the first written record for this bird for the 
