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extends. Spécimens in the British Musenm, which I believe to be 

 undoubted examples of this bird, hâve been obtained in the 

 Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, 

 Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, Congo 

 Mouth (Landana), French Equatorial Africa (Shari, Gribingui and 

 Bamingui rivers) to the Franco-Belgian boundary (Ubanghi river). 

 ScLATER and Fraed identified their spécimens from the White 

 Nile with typical C. hrachyptera (Ibis, 191 8, p. 655) and also 

 examples from the Nile Province of Uganda but as the races of 

 C. brachyptera do not appear to hâve been worked ont I prefer to 

 leave the East African birds to those who deal with this Région. 



Cisticola rufopileata rufopileata. 



Cisticola rtifopileata Rchw., J. f. O., 1891, p. 69. — Type loca- 

 lity : River Nun, S. Nigeria (cf. C. ruficapilla [nec. A. Smith] 

 Fraser, P. Z. S., 1843, P- '6). 



Mr Kemp shot two spécimens of the Rufous-capped Grass- 

 warbler at Burutu in March and April : the type was also descri- 

 bed by Fraser from the Nun river, although on the label of the 

 type spécimen appears the localitv Cape Palmas! If the bird is 

 indeed the tvpe and came from the Nun river then Mr Lowes 

 spécimens from Lagos may safely be assignedto the above form. 



Ratige. — C. r. rufopileata is represented in the British 

 Muséum from the Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, 

 Gaboon south to Landana, extending eastwards to the French 

 Congo and the North Belgian Congo. 



BoYD Alexander described another race which he named 

 C. petrophila from Northern Nigeria. I am satisfied that this 

 N. Nigérian form should be considered a race of C. rufopileata 

 and that it may be distinguished from that bird by its brighter 

 rufous head ; it extends to the Shari river in French Equatorial 

 Africa. I do not agrée with Sclater and Praed (Ibis, 1918, p. 655) 

 that the bird from Tingasi and another from Lango, Victoria Nile, 



