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4- — Phoi.idornis rushiak denti. 



Phnlidornis denti Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. O. C, XIX, iqoy, 

 p. 41 : Avakubi, E. Congo torest. 



Range. — East Congo Forest. 



Distinguishing characters. — Lower back, rump, iipper tail- 

 coverts, lower breast and belly mtich brighter yellow than in 

 P. r. rushiac or the other West Africa forms. 



(In Southern Nigeria this tiny créature is sometimes found with 

 sunbirds in Bombax trees or again at the tops of the highest forest 

 trees, where it is verv difticult to shoot being practically ont ot 

 gun shot. Thev teed on minute insects. One shot on January i2th. 

 was nesting. — W. P. L.) 



Nigrita canicapilla canicapilla- 



Aethî'ops camcapz7/û SrRiCKi.ANU, Froc. Zool. Soc, 1841, p. 30. 

 — Tvpe localitv : Fernando Po. 



Mr LowE has brought back three spécimens of this Negro Finch 

 from Iju near Lagos, ail shot in Januarv 1920. Robin obtained it 

 at Abeokuta as recorded by Nicholson (P. Z. S., 1878, p. 130) 

 and Tai.bot at Mbarakpa in Jnne and at Oban in July; we hâve 

 no spécimens from Northern Nigeria in the British Muséum. 



N. c. canicapilla ranges from Lagos to Landana and extends 

 Eastwards to the Uelle River district of the Belgian Congo. 



We hâve spécimens from the following districts : S. Nigeria, 

 Cameroon, Fernando Po, Gaboon, Congo Mouth, N. Belgian 

 Congo (Aruwhimi & Uelle Rivers and the Semliki vallev on the 

 Belgian Congo-Uganda frontier. On the Uganda boundary this 

 species meets with Nigrita canicapilla schistacea Sharpe and it 

 is noticeable that the further East the spécimen is obtained, the 

 doser does it approach N. c. schistacea, the white spots on the 

 major coverts becoming less pronounced, until in the Uganda bird 

 thev are lest altogether. 



