Excerpt from Notes on the Ornithology of Tropical East Africa

The collection of birds reported on in this paper was made by A. Loveridge when residing in East Africa from October, 1915, until May, 1923. About skins of some 800 species and subspecies were preserved. The preponderating majority of these specimens came from the northern half of Tanganyika Territory, but two natives, especially trained for the purpose, made collections in Bukoba, British Ruanda, Uganda and Kenya Colony, while further material was obtained dur ing the closing stages of the East African Campaign in the vicinity of Lumbo, Mozambique. As many of the localities are scarcely known outside the countries in which they occur, a geographical list of them is attached for the convenience of investigators using this paper.

Four years after Arthur Loveridge joined the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the bulk of the collection, comprising at least a pair of each form (where more than'one specimen had been obtained) was acquired for the Museum of Comparative Zoology through the generosity of Dr. Thomas Barbour. Several hundred duplicate specimens were purchased by the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society, the American Museum of Natural History and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; those from the latter institutions have been available when needed in the present study. However, only the specimens in the main collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology have been listed under each species, the others being referred to only by localities. Unfortunately the locality records of some of the earlier duplicates were not retained before the skins were dispersed by donations to various museums in England and East Africa, but the data for some of the birds now in the Coryndon Memorial Museum in Nairobi are here included.

In addition, a few birds collected by Loveridge while with the smithsonian-chrysler Expedition in 1926, and now in the U. S. National Museum, have been included in this report because they came from localities visited during the work involved in amassing the main collection.

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