obtained in the Manenguha Mountains. 659 



grey, larger and much more numerous than in tbe male. 

 The male has the belly blackish in contrast to the chest, 

 while the female has tbe entire underparts of a uniform 

 g^vey. In tbe male the spots on the breast and flanks are 

 pure white and smaller than in the female. The carmine- 

 red back, rump, and upper tail-coverts are slightly darker 

 in the male than in the female. 



Tlie locality Bafiim Bum, where the hen bird was shot, 

 should not be included in tbe Manenguba District and is 

 not marked on the map (Part iv. PL vi.) ; it is, however, the 

 only place at which Alexander obtained any specimens after 

 leaving the Manenguba Range, and the single example of 

 L. dyboivskii was the only bird secured there. Bafum Bum 

 lies about fifty miles from Manenguba in a north-westerly 

 direction and is marked on most recent maps. 



39. Nesocharis shelleyi. 



Nesoc/iaris shelleyi Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xiii, 1903, 

 p. 48: Fernando Po ; Bannerman, Ibis, 1915, p. 514, pi. vii. 

 fig. 1 ; id. Bull. B. O. C. XXXV. 1915, p. 106. 



a. c? ad. (No. 5). Ninong, Manenguba Mts. 9.vi. 09. 



This makes the third locality from which this little 

 Weaver-Finch has now been recorded. 



Alexander had previously obtained four examples on 

 Cameroon Mt. (vide Ibis, 1915, p. 514), and two, including 

 the type, in the island of Fernando Po [vide Ibis, 1903, 

 p. 352). 



In the former paper I have described and figured the 

 male for the first time. 



In the male specimen from Manenguba the grey of the 

 belly is noticeably darker, and the rump and breast are 

 darker and less washed with orange-yellow, than in the three 

 males from Cameroon Mt. 



40. Spermestes cucullatus. 



Sperniesfes cucullatus Swains. Birds West Africa, i. 1837, 

 p. 201 : Senegambia. 



a. S ad. (No. 1). Manenguba Mts. ll.vi.09. 



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