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3- — Mei.anopteryx maxwelli. Fernando Po, Cameroon, and 

 ? Nigeria ('), North Belgian Congo. 



Metanopteryx maxweIJi. 



Melanopteryx maxwelli Alexander, Bull. B. O. C, XIII, 1903, 

 p. 54. - Tvpe localitv : Fernando Po. 



I include Maxwells Black Weaver froni Southern Nigeria 

 with hésitation. I believe the bird which Shelley (Birds of Africa, 

 IV, pt. 2, p. 365) referred to M. alhinucha to belong probably 

 to the above, it was coUected by Dr Baikie on the Niger; 

 the exact localitv is not given. 



As Mr G. L. Batès has now proved that M . maxwelli breeds in 

 Cameroon, it is more likelv to hâve been this species which Baikie 

 obtained than the Gold Coast bird with which Shelley identified it. 



M . maxwelli, especiallv the females, can be confused with more 

 than one species, even with weavers belonging to an entirely 

 différent genus. Sonie distinguishing charaters between the feniale 

 of Malimbus corouatiis and Melanopteryx maxivelli are set forth 

 by Ogiiaie-Grant in the Ibis, 1917, pp. 74-75. 



Range. — M . maxwelli in found in Fernando Po, and Came- 

 roon, it raav occur in Nigeria, also in the North Belgian Congo. 

 (Cf. Chapin, Bnll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXV, 1916, p. 27.) 



Cinnamopteryx castaneofuscus. 



Ploceus castaneofuscus, Less, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 99. — Tvpe 

 localitv : Casamanse. 



A séries of twelve examples of the Chestnut and Black Weavers 

 was obtained bv Lowe at Iju, Lagos, in December and January, 

 vvhere thev were breeding « about 150 nests at tips of branches of 



C) a single spécimen in the British Muséum coUected on the Niger by Dr Baikie, 

 doLibtful if correct!)' identefied. 



