230 PARUS LEUCOMELAS. 



were collected by Col. H. P. Northcott, and are now in the 

 British Museum along with two of Ussher's from the Volta 

 river. Dr. Buthner has found the species in Togoland, and 

 Mr. Hartert at Loko on the Niger, where the birds were 

 in small parties. This is the furthest southern limit known 

 to me for the small race. 



P. leucomelas has not yet been recorded from Camaroous, 

 but Dr. Hartlaub mentions a specimen in Verreaux's collection 

 from Cape Lopez in Gaboon, and in the Congo district it 

 appears to be fairly plentiful, for Lucan and Petit collected 

 specimens at Conde and San Antonio, and Bohndorff at 

 Manyango and Leopoldsville. 



Monteiro shot a full pluraaged adult specimen of this species 

 near the river Mucozo in Cambambe, and writes : " Never 

 observed another specimen of this bird anywhere in Angola." 

 This specimen is now in the British Museum, and is specially 

 interesting as coming from the most southern known locality 

 for this species ; the countries in which P. leucomelas and 

 P. niger reside are separated by the " Buffer state" inhabited 

 by P. insignis. 



P. leucomelas probably ranges through the forest region of 

 the Congo, and is apparently plentiful all over the White Nile 

 district, for Emin has collected specimens at Kiri in May, at 

 Mabero in August, at Muggi in October, and also on the island 

 of Someh off the Uganda coast of Victoria Nyanza, and Dr. 

 Ausorge at Fajao in Unyoro. Mr. Jackson procured the 

 species at Kitosh in March, aud saw a pair at the foot of Mount 

 Elgon. Lord Lovat brought home a specimen from Telegubaie, 

 in about 11° N. lat., 40° B. long. In Shoa Dr. Ragazzi also 

 obtained a specimen at Goro in November. Further north 

 Ruppell procured the types of the species at Halei in the 

 Taranto mountaius in the Province of Temben. Mr. Blan- 

 ford during his visit to Abyssinia only saw it in the Anseba 



