30. NIGEIXA. 317 



m. Jut. sk. Deukera (Aubmn). Sliurpe Coll. 



n, 0. Ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 2 {T. Shelley CoU. 



E. Buckley). 



p. Juv. sk. River Volta (If. T. Ussher). Sliarpe Coll. 



q. Ad. sk. [Gaboon] * Sharpe Coll. 



3. Nigrita luteifrons. 



Nigiita luteifrons, Verr. Rev. et Mw/. de Zool. l6^\, p. 4:20; Hartl. 

 Orn. TV.-Afr. p. 131 (18-57); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, 

 p. 135 ; Gray, Haml-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 6650 (1870) ; Sliarpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 612 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 306. 



Adult. General colour above light ashy grey, slightly paler 

 towards the rump ; wings and tail black, slightly washed with ashy 

 on the wing-coverts ; head lighter grey than the back, the forehead 

 ochreous buff, shading into pearly grey ; lores, feathers round the 

 eyes, ear- coverts, cheeks, and entire under surface of body black, as 

 well as the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white, the edge of the wing grey ; quills dusky below, 

 whitish along the inner web. Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0'35, 

 wing 2-25, tail 1"55, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. Entirely grey above and below, with the forehead and 

 sides of face also grey ; quills and tail black : under surface of body 

 a little more dingy than the upper surface. 



Hah. West Afiica from the Cameroons to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains {A. Cross- Sharpe CoU. 



ley). 



b. Juv. sk. Gaboon {Dti Chadlu). Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Gaboon. P. B. Du Chaillii 



[C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Gaboon (Du Cltudlu). Forbes Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Shelley Coll. 



4. Nigrita lucieni. 



Nigrita luteifrons {nee Verr.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 61 (1871). 

 Nigrita lucieni, Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 75 



(1878) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 557 (1881j ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, 



p. 306. 



Adult (tj'pe of species). Very similar to N. luteifrons, but differ- 

 ing in its grey under surface. It has the same ochreous buff fore- 

 head, but has only the lores and feathers round the eye black. 

 Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 035, wing 2-3, tail I'o, tarsus 0-G. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Congo to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon ( Walker). Sharpe Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Ungomongo, Interior of the M. A. Bouvier. 



Congo State (Z. Petit). (Type of species.) 



* I quite agree with Captain Shelley (Ibis, 188G, p. 305) that this specimen 

 is probably wrongly ticketed by M. Verreaux. The skin has every appearance 

 of the usual Gold Coast " make." 



