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Observation. — I hâve seen no spécimens from the Belgian 

 Congo, but Mr Chapin apparently met with it there. In his 

 classification of the weaver birds (Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVII, 1917, p. 267), he makes satnrata a race oi capitalha. I 

 do not think he is correct in doing so. 



8. — Amrlyospiza albifrons tandae. 



Aniblyospiza alhifrons tandae Bannerman, Bull. B. O. C, XLI, 

 1921, p. 136 : N'Dala Tando, N. Angola. 



Range. — Northern Angola. 



The above distribution is based on the material in the British 

 Muséum, of the eight forms hère enuraerated; the last three are 

 the West x^frican représentatives of the species. 



Sitagra melanocephala capitalis. 



Tanagra capitalis Lath. Ind. Orn. I, 1790, p. 432. — Tvpe loca- 

 litv : uncertain. 



Mr LowE did not meet with the Niger Black-headed Weaver. It 

 is however a well knovvn Nigérian bird and Robin Kkmp collected 

 a sniall séries at Agoulerie in Southern Nigeria in {une, fulv and 

 i^ugust. 



From Northern Nigeria \ve hâve birds from Shonga (W. A. 

 FoRBEs) and Hartert obtained it at Loko. 



From the Lake Chad région, including Faith Island, in the Lake, 

 we hâve a séries collected in December, januarv, March, and 

 April (BoYU Alexander, 1904-1905), also from Buso on the Shari 

 River in French Equat. Afr. and from the Kibali river in the North 

 Belgian Congo, both obtained in Julv 1905 bv Alexander. 



I disagree with Reichenow in admitting this weaver to the list 

 of Senegambian birds, for as Shellev points ont it is indeed strange 

 if we find the same subspecies in Nigeria and Senegambia and not 

 in the huge stretch of countrv between, especiallv when typical 

 6'. m. melanocephala is known to inhabit Sénégal and Gambia. 



