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Phylloscopus sibilatrix sibilatrix. 



Motacilla sibilatrix Bechst., Naturfôrscher, XXVII, 1793, 

 p. 47. — Tvpe locality : Thuringian mountains. 



Two spécimens of the Wood Warbler were obtained bv Mr Lowe 

 at Iju water works S. Nigeria, in January 1920. They are both in 

 very worn plumage, particularlv the maie (n° 234). 



In addition to the Southern Nigérian examples we hâve spéci- 

 mens from the Gold Coast (May and February) one from the 

 Upper Congo (Februarv) and one from Molegbwe on the Ubanghi 

 river (12 December). 



Sylviella flaviventris nigeriae. 



Sylviella flaviveutris nigeriae Bannerman, Bull. B. O. C, XLI, 

 1920, p. 4. — Type locality : Iju water- works near Lagos. 



Mr Lowe secured three spécimens of the Nigérian Yellow-ven- 

 ted Bush-warbler in December and January 1919-1920. In the 

 Bulletin of the B. O. C. for November 1920, I described several 

 new birds which Mr Willoughby Lowe had collected in West 

 Africa and amongst them the above form. 



There are now two know races of 6". flaviventris. 



1. — Sylviella flaviventris flaviventris. 



Sylviella flaviventris Sharpe, P. Z. S., 1877, p. 23. — Type 

 locality : Gold Coast. 



Range. — Gold Coast and Sierra Leone (Kelsall). 



2. — Sylviella flaviventris nigeriae. 

 Cf. supra. 



Range. — Southern Nigeria. 



