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by Kelsali. is not in the British Muséum so that I hâve not been 

 able to compare it. It must surelv bave been O. brachyr/iynchus 

 hrachyrhynchus Swains. 



I bave referred the matter to Col. Kei.saix who writes that in 

 looking up his M. S. notes he has no mention of Oriolus rolleti 

 there, and that he identified his spécimen n° 88 as hrachyrhynchus 

 originally. He is unable to explain how it appeared as rolleti in his 

 paper. We mav, I think, sately eliminate O. rolleti from the list 

 of Sierra Leone. 



.In any case O. h. hrachyrhynchus should be added to mv list of 

 the birds of Sierra Leone as Sierra Leone is the Type locality of 

 Swainsons species. Through having no spécimens in the British 

 Muséum from Sierra Leone the fact was overlooked when I 

 compiled mv list. 



OrioJiiis njgrjpennis. 



Oriolus nigripeii7iis Y¥.RYi^Avyi, Journ. fûrOrn., 1885, p. 105. — 

 Tvpe localitv : Gaboon. 



The two spécimens ot this Black-winged Black-headed Oriole 

 which Mr Lowe shot at Iju, Lagos, in December 1919 are curiously 

 enough the first records of this species from Southern Nigeria. 

 Shellv in his birds of Africa v. p. iq particularlv remarks that it 

 has never been seen between Togoland and Cameroon, nor can I find 

 anv mention of its occurrence since that date. 



Oriolus nigripennis mav be distinguished from ail the other 

 black-headed Orioles bv having : 



A. The middie pair of tail feathers black (not green) narrowly 

 tipped with vellow. (This distinguishes it from ail the black-headed 

 Orioles except O. percevnli.) 



B. Primaries and secondaries not broadlv margined with grev 

 or vvhite. (This distinguishes it from O. pcrcevali^ the O. larvatus 

 group and the O. monachus group.) 



C. Primarv coverts entirelv black. 



