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Estrilda anambrae. 



Estrilda anambrae Kemp, Journ. fur. Orn., iqoy, p. 624. — Type 

 localitv : Agoulerie, S. Nigeria. 



The Anambra Waxbill appears to the confined to the Anambra 

 Creek district of Southern Nigeria. Robin Kemp obtained a large 

 séries at Agoulerie in Jiine, july and August igos ; we hâve 24 spé- 

 cimens collected by him in the British Muséum but the type was 

 presented bv Kemp to the Berlin Muséum. 



Nesocharis capistrata. 



Pytelia capistrata Harteaub, |. f. O., 1861, p. 25g. — Type 

 localitv : Bissao, Portuguese Guinea. 



A maie of Hartlaub's Mannikin was obtained bv Robin at Abeo- 

 kuta and recorded by Nicholson (P. Z. S , 1878, p. 130) where 

 he made it the type of Auiadina sharpei, giving a long description 

 and figure (plate X) overlooking the fact that his bird had already 

 been described bv Harteaub as Pytelia capistrata. 



We hâve onlvfive spécimens in the British Muséum, one obtai- 

 ned bv BoYD Alexander at Kaga-Djerri in French Equatorial 

 Africa, a village on the Kemo river which is a tributary appa- 

 rently of the Ubangi river. A. second exainple was secured by the 

 s; me çollector at Krachi on the Gold Coast; i\^nother bird is 

 labelled Gambia (ex Coll. Whitely). Lastly we hâve a spécimen 

 obtained by Major Christv at Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sudan, which was 

 referred to this species by Sclater and Praed (Ibis, igi8, p. 446). 



Reichenow in his great work places this species in the genus 

 Cryptospiza but I consider it is much better placed in the genus 

 Nesochans unless a new genus is proposed for it. Six years ago I 

 suggested (Ibis, igi5, pp. 514-516) keepingiV. capistrata., N. shel- 

 leyi and N. ansorgei in the genus Nesocharis a course which I 

 now adhère to. 



N. shelleyi Alexander is the type of the genus and is found in 

 Fernando Po and Cameroon. The three species are corapared in 

 my paper on the Birds of Cameroon mountain (1. c). 



