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Title: Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo
Bulletin of the AMNH , Vol. XXXIV, Art. XVI, pp. 509-513,
Oct. 20th, 1915

Author: James Chapin

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_Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo._

BY JAMES P. CHAPIN.

BULLETIN OF THE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
VOL. XXXIV, ART. XVI, pp. 509-513

_New York, October 20, 1915._

=Article XVI.=--DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW BIRDS FROM THE BELGIAN
CONGO.

BY JAMES P. CHAPIN.

The whole of the large collection of birds secured by the Congo
Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during the years
1909 to 1915, under the leadership of Mr. Herbert Lang, has now arrived
safely at the Museum. It is composed of material gathered all across the
Belgian Congo, from Boma on the west to Aba in the northeastern corner,
but the greater part from the more remote territory between Stanley
Falls and the Enclave of Lado, including the dense equatorial forests of
the Ituri, Nepoko, and Bomokandi, and the high-grass and bush country of
the Uele District to the north and northeast.

Of the relatively small number of zooelogical expeditions that have
passed through and collected in these regions, none has ever before
been able to make such a prolonged stay, and the varied zooelogical
results of this Expedition are surely of the highest scientific
interest. The ornithological collection contains in the neighborhood
of six thousand skins, and represents some 600 different species, a
number of them of course new to science. These it is our purpose to
describe as promptly as possible in this Bulletin, before taking up
the greater work of a general report on all the forms collected, with
more extended notes on their distribution, habits, food, and nests.

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