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bird and coloured all the plates, before I had completed the material now 

 before me, hence the mistake in the word jxv., which should be fig. 2, Jun. 



I iiERK point out that all the specimens of PL albimicha examined ai'e from 

 the Gold Coast ; they have the lower half of the under parts, or abdomen, 

 dull slaty-brown ; some are paler than others, which are apparently of 

 different ages ; one I possess is entirely black on the head, neck and back 

 without the nuchal patch, but still retains the slaty-brown abdomen ; they 

 are all comparatively much smaller than J'l. iihjerriiitw^^ the bill mucli 

 slighter and straighter, especially on the culmen. 



Ploceus albinucl 



la. 



The figures (Plate I.) are taken from a and / in my own collection, and 



figured for the first time. 



