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colour, without or with only a few whitish edges to the feathers of the back. 

 E. I. leucotis was collected by A. L. Butler at Gedaref, while Emiu Pasha shot 

 E. I. tnelanocephala at Kudurma. 



133. Galerida cristata alexanderi Neum. 



GulerUla crislala alp.mmleri Neumann, Bull. B. (). Club, .v.xiii. p. 45 (1908 — " Haussa Countries, 

 between Lake Chad and the Benue River." Type from Bautchi, collected by Boyd Alexander ; 

 (J, 11. i.x, 1904, in the Tring Mu.seum). 



3 c? ¥ ad., Zaria, August and September 1912. Ad., Dosso, west of Sokoto. 



The specimens from Zaria agree very well with the types of G. c. alexanderi. 

 Their wings measure 94'5-103 mm. The one with the wing of 94'5 is a female, 

 the 103 a male. The third specimen has the wing 100'5; it is marked ? , but 

 is undoubtedly a male. The specimen from Dosso is not a skin, but a carbolised 

 mummy. It is a slight shade darker (perhaps due to the mode of preservation), 

 and its wing measures 105 mm. 



134. Macronyx croceus (Vieill.) 

 3 ad. and juv., Province of Zaria. 



135. Pycnonotus barbatus inornatus (Fras.) 



Ixrnt inornatus Fraser, Prof. Zool, Soc. London, 1843, p. "27 (" Cape Coast" in West Africa, Gold 



Coast). 

 Pi/cnonotus barhatax inornatnn Hartert, Vijij. pal. Fauna, i. p. 460. 



Kaduna on the Kadnna River, province of Zaria, and Cuzanar, between the 

 Niger and Senegal. 



Wings 95-104-5 mm. I 



13(5. Hedydipna platura platura (Vieill.) 



(?, Zaria, 10. xi., ?, 20. xi. 1912. 



Wings 89'5 mm. 



Zedlitz {Orn. Monatsber. 1910, p. 59, Joiirn. f. Oni. 1911, p. 61) separated 

 specimens from the Adiabo Steppe in N. W. Abyssinia under the name of H. platura 

 adiabonensis, which are much smaller. An adnlt male obtained by L. M. Seth- 

 Smith at Fatiko, on the Upper White Nile, is inseparable from the W. African 

 form, its wings measuring 89'7 mm. 



137. Cinnyris cupreus cupreus (Shaw) 

 i imm. in full moult, Zaria, 14. xi. 1912. 



138. Parus niger guiueensis Shell. (?) 



An adult bird from the Province of Zaria agrees with specimens of P. n. 

 guineensis ia having the lesser as well as the median and greater upper wing- 

 coverts pure white, but its wing measures 84-5 mm. ; while in yidneensis the wing 

 remains usually much under 80 mm., measuring as a rule about 70-77 mm. 



Some specimens supposed to belong to this race, however, have longer wings : 

 (?, Upper Gasamanze, 79-5 : c? ad., Kirtaonda, near Thies, Western Senegal Colony, 

 collected by F. W. Riggenbach, 81 mm. Other specimens from near Thifes are 

 small. 



