ao ORIOLUS NIGRIPENNIS 



Its occurrence so far west as Sierra Leone formerly rested 

 on a specimen iu the late Lord Walden's collection, so it is 

 interesting to find it again met with in that district by Mr. 

 Eobin Kemp, who procured a pair in February, 1904, at Bo. 

 It is moderately plentiful throughout the Gold Coast, and 

 is represented in the British Museum from Wassaw (Blissett), 

 Fantee (Higgins), and Cape Coast (Ussher). I and Buckley 

 considered it to be abundant in the Aguapin district, and 

 met with it in coniiDany with O. hraclij/rlu/ncJiits at Abouri. 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander writes : " This Oriole inhabits the same 

 localities as 0. bracJiijrJiyiicJtns, but is not so common." He 

 also remarks that its cry " lu-lu," "breaks at intervals the 

 distant silence, while close to the traveller, the hurried notes 

 of the Babbling Thrush (CossypJia rerficali.s) conies from 

 the cool depths of the forest thicket." In Togoland Mr. 

 Baumann obtained the species at Misahohe Station, but, 

 like 0. hraclujrliijnchns, I do not find it yet recorded from 

 the country between Togoland and Camaroons. 



In Camaroons the species has been procured at Buea, 

 Bipimbi, Mann's Well and Efulen. The type of the species 

 which is in the British Museum came from Gaboon, and here, 

 according to the Brothers Verreaux, it arrives towards the 

 middle of October, and, in pairs, frequents the large forests 

 which abound with berries and caterpillars. In Loango, 

 specimens have been procured at Chinchouxo in April by 

 Falkenstein, and at Landana in Ma}' by Lucan and Petit, 

 and I should doubt its being migratory in its habits, as 

 Verreaux implies. 



In its most eastern known range it has been obtained 

 by Bohndori! in Sassa, about 4° .30' X. lat. by •20" E. long. 



