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Show 130 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM ANGOLA. [Feb. 7, Aves descriptae, ad litora et circa insulas frequentes, etiam manibus captae sunt. Plures deinde, vivas in navi servatae, delectamento erant nautis, erecta?, vacillando circumvagantes, speciem praebentes pue-ruli mendici, veste prolixa, terram verrente et manicis pendulis mstructa, induti. (Hinc nomen petitum, etsi habitus idem Sphe-niscinis omnibus verisimiliter communis.) 4. O n the Birds of Angola. B y R. B. S H A R P E , F.L.S., Libr. Z.S., & c - P a r t III. [Received January 17, 1871.] (Plate VII.) Since my previous papers on the avifauna of Angola I have only received two collections, neither of them very extensive. The first was placed in my hands by my friend Mr. J. J. Monteiro, who brought a few birds with him on his recent return to England on account of his ill-health. I am happy to say that he has now completely recovered and has gone back to Angola; so that we may expect to have from him some more observations on the ornithology of that country, to the elucidation of the fauna of which he has contributed in so remarkable a manner. For the second collection I am indebted to Mr. Cutter of Blooms-bury Street, who had received it, in his capacity as a natural-history agent, from Mr. Charles Hamilton, a gentleman now travelling in Angola. I have to thank Mr. F. G. II. Price, who is a personal friend of Mr. Hamilton, and who has aided him greatly in the objects of the expedition, for the following note, which has reference to the localities where the birds were collected: " Mr. Hamilton told me in a letter that he had killed most of his birds on the river Lucalla, and some near Cazengo. He informed me that birds were not plentiful, owing to the many enemies the young ones had. He likewise killed birds and caught butterflies in the vicinity of Galungo Alto." Having in my last paper (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 142) forgotten to give the number of species, I must here state that up to the present time I have recorded sixty as having been sent by Mr. Monteiro andHeerSala. It will be interesting in a little while to compare the results obtained by the English naturalists with those obtained by Signor Anchieta, who is making large collections in Angola for the Lisbon Museum, when we may hope to arrive at a correct know r! ? n , av!f a u™ o f t h e country. I have, as usual, referred to 1 rot. Barboza du Bocage's papers on the consignments of Sio-nor Anchieta, a dagger f being prefixed when the bird is believed to have been recorded from Angola for the first time. 61. CRINIGER FLAVIVENTRIS. Criniger flaviventris (Sm.); Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 22. |