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replaced by black feathers at a later stage in both sexes, 

 though in tiie male the crown eventually becomes scarlet. 



The adult female is black, much like Melanopieryx max- 

 welli Alexander in general appearance, but the bill is 

 stouter, the culmen more curved, tlie basal portion of the 

 feathers of the mouth darker grey and the wing longer, 

 85 mm. or more, while in M. maxwelli the wing is less 

 than 80 mm. 



Malimbus cassini Elliot. 



The female of this species does not appear to have been 

 described, Mr. Bates has sent home two examples marked 

 female, both of which appear to be in immature plumage. 

 The general colour is black, with the chin, throat, and chest 

 mixed with pale orange-red, especially in one which seems 

 to be the younger bird of the two. 



Malimbus malimbicus (Daud.). 



Malimbus nigrifrons Hart). ; Siiarpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 351. 



The characters pointed out by Sharpe as distinguishing 

 M. nigrifrons Hartl. are no doubt merely individual. 



Specimens from northern Angola collected by W. J. 

 Ansorge have the lower breast and belly washed with grey 

 rather more markedly than in any bird from Cameroon. 



Camaroptera superciliaris Fraser. 



The ty])e of this species procured by Fraser on Fernando 

 Po is in the British Museum. I have little doubt that 

 C. jlavigularis Reichenow, also from Fernando Po, is founded 

 on young examples of the same bird. Three specimens 

 collected by Boyd Alexander and E. Seimund agree exactly 

 with Dr. Reichenow's description and figure of his C. flavi- 

 gularis, and are no doubt quite immature birds^ as is shown 

 by the texture of the flank-feathers, which are very soft and 

 downy. As in C. superciliaris, the middle of the belly is 

 pure white. 



C. superciliaris kamerunensis Reichw. Orn. Monatsb. xx. 

 p. 29 (1912) from Bipindi, Cameroon, is a tolerably distinct 

 race, the underparts being washed with grey. This character 



