— 20-1 — 



Range. — The distribution of tliis bird, judged bv the material 

 iii tlie British Muséum appears to be : Sénégal, Gambia, Cape 

 N'erd Islands, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, 

 Northern Nigeria and now to Southern Nigeria. South of Nigeria 

 its phice is taken in North Caineroon by 



2. — Lagonosticta senegaia fi.avodorsai.is. 



L. s . Jtavodorsalis Zv.r)\.vr/., (). M., 1910, X\'I1I, p. 172 : Adamaua. 



Range. — Hinterland of Caineroon ; N. Nigeria (Benne river) 



and French Eqnatorial Africa (Shari river). 



3. — Lagonosticta senegai.a rAi.i.iuicKissA. 



/,. .y. pallidicrissa Zedlitz, O. M., 1910, XVIH, p. 173 : Huni- 

 pata (Angohi). 



Range. — Angola. 



Observation . — I am unahle from verv scant material to déter- 

 mine to which form the Belgian Congo bird should belong. 



The remaining nunierous races of L. senegaia were last reviewed 

 bv Count Zedi.itz in the O. M., XVIIl, 1910, pp. 171-174. 



ScLATER and Pkaeu point ont in Ibis, 1918, p. 447 that the bird 

 listed in Zedlitz' review as L. s. erythreae is L. s. bninneiceps of 

 Sharpe, and Neumann's name nnist therefore sink into the syno- 

 nvmv of bninneiceps. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE (p. 319). 



Passer griseus griseus. 



Fringilla griseaY\-E.\\.\..y Nouv. Dict., XII, 1S17, p. 198. — Type 

 localitv : United States! ^'rror^.' (Sénégal). 



Professor Neumann tells me that Mann shot a spécimen of the 

 Grev Sparrow at Lagos. The races of this species hâve been worked 



