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From Northern Nigeria we hâve spécimens obtained at Keffi and 

 Dororo in August bv Ai.exander, and from Shonga in November 

 and December bv W. A. Forbes. Southern Nigeria seems to be 

 the most southerlv point reached bv this weaver, Cameroon 

 birds differing from it in well marked characters. 



Range. — H. 0. hr dchypterics r?i\\ges{rom?)eneg-à\ and Gambia 

 to Southern Nigeria. We hâve spécimens in the Muséum from 

 Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, French Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, 

 the Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria. 



The races of H. ocularius are not ail clearly defined. HARXiiKT 

 (apparentlv following Neumann, save that he does not recognise 

 H. u. abaveiisis from S. Abyssinia) reviewed the fonns in 1907 

 (Nov. Zool. XIV, pp. 496-498). I prefer to use Neumann's arran- 

 gement of the East African and Central African races as far as it 

 goes. (J. f. O., 1905, p. 339.) 



In West Africa, besides H. 0. hrachypterus, we hâve H . ocu- 

 larius po, described bv Hartert from Fernando Po, and also an 

 apparentlv nnnamed race from Cameroon, but see remarks bv 

 Ogii.vie-Grant, Ibis, 1917, p. 74 under « Sitagra ocularia crocota 

 Harti,. ». 



(I found this weaver less common than the other varieties 

 which I obtained near Lagos. — W. P. L.) 



liyphantùrgfus aurantius. 



Maliinhus aunuitius Vikii.i,., Ois. Chant., 1805, p. 73. — i'ype 

 localitv : Congo. 



The Orange Weaver was first obtained from Southern Nigeria 

 bv Crossi.ev at Bonnv on the 2ist November 1870 and next by 

 W. A. Forbes at Abutschi in August 1882 (Shelly, Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 551). Ansorge also obtained it on the Lower Niger (Shei.ia', 

 Bds of Africa, IV, p. 472). 



It is a verv beautiful and distinct species with its bright golden- 

 orange plumage. 



