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In Northern Nigeria it bas been obtained at Illorin (Bryant), 

 Egga on the Niger (Forbes), Shala and Kiri, Gongola River, in 

 Julv (B. Ai-exander) and at Gora near Banchi also in July 1904 

 (B. Alexander). 



IVest African range. — In the British Muséum we hâve 

 examples from other parts of West Africa frora Sénégal, Portu- 

 guese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, Northern and 

 Southern Nigeria and from Fernando Po. 



Coliuspasser (') macrura. 



Ijjxia inaciitra Gmei.., Syst. Nat., I, pt. IL 1789, p. 845. — Type 

 localitv : Whidah (=^ Whvdah, Dahomey) and the Sénégal 

 River. 



Several examples ot the Yellovv-mantled Whvdah hâve been 

 obtained in Southern Nigeria, notablv at Agouleriein Mav(R. Kemp) 

 and at Abutschi (W. A. Forbes). 



From Northern Nigeria we hâve spécimens from Shonga and 

 Lokoja (^FoRBESj; Ibi in April and Lerewe in September (^B. 

 Alexander) while it is recorded bv Shei.i.ev from Loko in June 

 and fulv (Hartert). 



Range. — C. uiaci ara bas a verv wide range. It is represented 

 in tlie British Muséum from Gambia, Port : Guinea, Sierra Leone, 

 Libéria, Gold Coast, Northern and Southern Nigeria, Gaboon, 

 Angola, vSudan, Belgian Congo, Niam-Niam, French Equatorial 

 Africa and Khodesia. 



Gmelin records it from the Sénégal River and from Dahomey 

 and Reichenow from Cameroon besides which Sheli.ev (Birds of 

 Africa, IV, p. 51) enumerates varions other localities in East 

 Africa as far South as the Zambesi River from which it has been 

 obtained. 



('I l'inlhetriopsis of Sharpe's Cat. of Birds and the Hand List. I foUow Mr ChapIiN in his 

 review of the vveavers in using Coliuspasser. 



