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Hypochera funerea wilsoni. 



Hypoc/iera wi/soiii H. ARTKRT, Nov. Zool., VIII, iqoi, p. 342. — 

 Type locality : Yelua, Northern Nigeria. 



Wilson's Mourning Coinbason, was obtained by Robin Kemp at 

 Agoulerie in August and by Henrv Robin at Abeolcuta, tlie latter 

 spécimen wrongly identified and recorded by Nicholson as Hypo- 

 chera chalybeata (P. Z. S., 1878, p. 130) : LowE did not nieet with 

 it at Iju. 



From Northern Nigeria it seems to be known only troni the type 

 locality, Yelua on the Niger River. A représentative of the nearly 

 allied Hypochera chalybeata nemnaiini conies from Bautchi and 

 the Lake Chad district of Northern Nigeria, but this bird. is not 

 yet known from Southern Nigeria. 



Range. — H. f. ■wilsoni apparently ranges from Sénégal to the 

 Sudan. We hâve spécimens from Senegarabia, Portiiguese Guinea, 

 Southern Nigeria and the Bahr-el-Ghazal in the British Muséum. 



Note. — MessrsScLATER and Mackworth-Praed hâve monogra- 

 phed the genus Hypochera (Ibis, igi8, pp. 448-450) and hâve wor- 

 ked ont the races of the four main groups H. chalybeata, H. fune- 

 rea, H. idtraiiiarina and H . codringtoni. 



Vidua serena. 



Eniberiza serena Linn., Syst. Nat.. I2th éd., 1766, p. 312. — 

 Type locality : Unknown to Linnaeus and not designated. 



Mr Lowe shot a single spécimen of the White-breasted Whydah 

 at Iju near Lagos out of a flock of eight in January 1920, and 

 Robin Kemp obtained a bird in June at Agoulerie : Robin another 

 at Abeokuta recorded by Nicholson, and one from the Niger 

 above Aboh collected by Forbes. 



From Northern Nigeria the British Muséum possesses spécimens 

 from Jebba in June (Christy); Illorin in June (Bryant); Dorroro 

 in August (Alexander) and Ziam in September (^Alexander). 



