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The type which is in the British Muséum is labelled « Afrique 

 occidentale » and accordin^ to SHEi.i,f:Y came from Gaboon. It was 

 purchased from M. Verreaux. 



Range. — The range of O. nigripeiDiis is : 



Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Togoland, Southern Nigeria, Came- 

 roon, Fernando-Po, Gaboon, Nothern Angola, N. Belgian (]ongo 

 and Niam-Niam, from ail which places except Togoland the bird 

 is represented in the British Muséum. 



The onlv^ other Black-headed Oriole which has the central tail 

 feathers black is Orio/us percevali Ogii.vie-Grant known to 

 occur in Kenva Colonv and Uganda. This character will alone 

 suffice to distinguish O. nigripennis from ail other West African 

 Orioles. 



Family PLOCEIDAE ('). 

 SuBFAMii.v PLOCEINAE. 



Amblyospiza albifrons capitaiba. 



CoryphegiKithns capitalbus Bonap., Consp. II, 1850, p. 451. — 

 Type localitv : Ashantee. 



There is onlv one record of the Ashantee Grosbeak-weaver 

 having been shot in Southern Nigeria, a temale obtained bv Robin 

 at Abeokuta and recorded bv Nichoi-Sox i P. Z. S., 1875, p. 130). 

 The spécimen is in the British Muséum and I believe it to hâve 

 been correctlv identified with the Gold Coast race as it has a wing 

 measurement of 79 mm. notwithstanding the fact that a skin from 

 Ilorin, Northern Nigeria (Bryant) is referable to the larger and 

 darker Canieroon form A. albifrons saturata Sharpe — a maie 

 bird with a wing of 95 mm. 



1') The arrangement foUowed is that <jf Mr J. P. Chafix. (Bull. Am. Mus. \at. Hist. 

 1917, XXXVII. Art. IX, pp. 243-280.) 



