Swifts (Apodidae)

Bates's Swift (Apus batesi) - HBW 5, p. 457

French: Martinet de Bates German: Mohrensegler Spanish: Vencejo del Camerún
Other common names: Black(!)/Bates’s Black Swift

Taxonomy: Cypselus batesi Sharpe, 1904, Efulen, Cameroon.
Monotypic.

Distribution: W Cameroon and N Gabon, Central African Republic, and E Zaire (Kivu Province and Semliki Valley); also Sierra Leone to Nigeria, where status uncertain.