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I cannot separate birds from Uganda from typical spécimens. 

 A single speciuien from the Semliki vallev is distinctlv darker than 

 Fernando Po birds, but the same tone of colour is exhibited in 

 Angolan spécimens; light-backed examples being found alongside 

 darker-backed birds. 



I can therefore onlv recognise the two verv distinct races. 



1. — NiGRITA FUSCONOTA FUSCONOTA. 



Cf. supra. 



Range. — Fernando Po, Soutliern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, 

 Congo-mouth, Northern Angola, E. Belgian Congo, Uganda. 



2. — NiGRITA FUSCONOTA UROPYGIALIS. 



Nigrita iiropygïalïs Sharpe^ Ibis, 1869, p. 384 : Fantee. 



Distiiigiiishing characters : Distinguished from N. f. fusconota 

 bv having the lovver-back isabelline buff"-colom-. 



Range. — Gold Coast. 



(Appears to be a scarce bird of which I onlv saw two spécimens, 

 they were on the edge of thick bush and both were in breeding 

 condition. — W. P. L.). 



Spermospiza haematina pustulata. 



Fringilla pustulata Voigt, Cuv. Thierr, I, 1831, p; 581. — Tvpe 

 localitv : Malimba, French Congo (founded on Loxia giittata 

 V1EI1.1,.). 



In the Proc. Bi. Soc. Wash., vol. XXXIV, March 1921, p. 50, 

 Mr H. C. Oberholser points ont that the weaver bird hitherto 

 known as Spermospiza guttata Vieillot must in future be known 

 as Spermospiza pustulata (Voigt). Loxia guttata ol Vieillot, 

 1805, being invalidated on account of Loxia guttata of Shaw, 



