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56. Linurgus olivaceus. 



Coccothraustes olivaceus Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18J<2, 

 p. 144 : Fernando Po. 



o. c?(No. la). Cameroon Mt. 28.iii.09. 



b. S (No. 2 a). „ „ l.iv.09. 



c. ? (No. 2Z)). Cameroon Peak. 17. iv. 09. 



d. ? (No. \b). „ „ 20.iv.09. 

 Alexander formerly separated the bird from Cameroon 



from L. olivaceus under the name Linurgus camerunensis 

 (Bull. B. O. C. xiii. 1903, p. 38), but in his paper on the 

 Birds of Fernando Po (Ibis, 1903, p. 347), he stated that 

 the characters which he gave to the Cameroon bird were not 

 constant, and therefore united it with L. olivaceus'. In this 

 decision I quite agree with him. 

 [Found on the Peak. — B. A.] 



57. Pyromelana xanthomelas phoenicomera. 



Euplectes phienicomera Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 

 vol. X. 1862, p. 444 : Cameroon. 



a-f. ^ imm. (Nos. 1, 2, Cameroon Peak. 31.iii.09. 

 3, 4, 6, 8). 



g. S ii^m- (No. 7). „ „ ll.iv. 09, 



h. ? ad. (No. 5). „ „ 16.iv.09. 



This is a local form of P. xanthomelas, and is apparently 

 confined to the highest parts of the Cameroon Range. 



Alexander did not obtain the adult male, but examples 

 obtained by Sir Richard Burton and Sir Harry Johnston 

 show that it closely resembles the male of P. xanthomelas. 

 The Cameroon form is distinguished by having the bill 

 somewhat more slender than in the typical species. 



[Found in large flocks on the grass-laud beyond the forest 

 limit up to the Peak itself. — B. A.] 



58. Estrilda nonnula. 



Astrilda nonnula Hartlaub, Journ. fur Orn. 1883, p. 435 : 

 Kudurma (Bahr-el-Ghazal). 



a, 6. c? ? ad. (Nos. 1, 2). Cameroon Mt. 27. iv. 09. 



Hartlaub's Black-crowned Waxbill appears to replace 

 E. atricapilla in the highlands of Cameroon. Specimens had 



