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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
