316 PLOCEID^. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being much browner, the mmp 

 only a little greyer than the back ; scarcely any white spots on the 

 wing-coverts and inner secondaries ; forehead like the back ; under 

 surface of body dull slaty grey, interspersed with a few black 

 feathers of the approaching adult plumage. 



Hah. West Africa from Dahomey to the Congo. 



LuCttTl). 



o. Ad. sk. [Angola {Hamilton).'] Sharpe Coll. 



2. Nigrita emilise. 



Nigrita cauicapilla, pt., Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 1.30. 



Nigrita emilise, Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 884, pi. 11. fig. 2; id. Ibis, 



1870, p. 473 ; Gra>/, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 0651 (1870) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 61 "(1871); Shelley Sf Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289; 



Heichen. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 41 : She'llet/, Ibis, 1886, p. 307 ; Biittik. 



Notes Leyden M%(s. x. p. 90 (1888). 

 Nigrita canicapilla {nee Strickl.), Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. viii. 



p. 261 (1886). 



Adult. Similar to N. canicapilla, but smaller, with the rump like 

 the back or only a Httle paler grey ; no white spots on the \vings, 

 the coverts and inner secondaries faintly fringed with ashy grey at 

 the ends : " bill black ; feet smoky brown ; iris yellowish white '' 

 {J. Stamj)jii); "iris cinnabar-red" {A. Reichenow). Total length 

 4-4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-4.5, tail 1*6, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Uniform sooty black, with no white or ashy spots on the 

 rump ; tail blacker than the back. 



Hah. West Africa from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 



* Paler in colour, but it is impossible to say if it is speciflcally distinct, as 

 the specimen was sent home in spirits, and the colours may have faded. 



