228 POLIOSPIZA CANICAPILLA. 



it is called by the natives tlie " Nimba," but it is apparently 

 rare in these parts, as he has recorded only a single specimen, 

 a male, shot by him at Salisbury, November 10, 1894. 



Poliospiza canicapilla. 



Poliospiza canicapilla, Du Bus, Bull. Ac. R. Bruxelles, 1855, p. 151 



Senegal. 

 Poliospiza flegeli, Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 583 Loko ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 



M. xii. p. 343 (1888), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 275 (1896) ; Eeichen. 



J. f. 0. 1897, p. 41 Togo; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. ZiO Niger. 



Type. " Above brownish grey ; crown brownish black mottled with 

 white ; beneath grey ; sides of head brownish grey ; eyebrow, throat, 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; wings and tail dark brown with 

 greyish edges to the feathers. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 2-95, tail 2, tarsus 0-6." Senegal. 



Adult. " Above brownish grey, with the head more dusky and irregularly 

 streaked with white ; above the eye two white stripes, and the sides of the 

 head more dusky. Under parts uniform pale brownish grey, paler on the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts and fading into white on the throat where 

 there are two small dark spots close to the bill. Tail brown, the feathers 

 with dusky shafts and paler edges. Quills and wing-coverts dusky brown 

 with paler outer edges. Iris greyish brown ; bill and feet brownish llesh 

 colom-. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-4, vying 2'9, tail 2-15, tarsus 0"48. 

 5 , Loko." (Hartert). 



The Senegal Seed-eater ranges from Senegambia to the 

 Niger. 



The type is in the Brussels Museum, labelled as coming 

 from Senegal. In Togoland, Mr. E. Baumann met with the 

 species at the Misahohe station and the only other specimen 

 yet recorded is the type of P. fegeli which was procured by 

 Mr. Hartert at Loko on the Benue branch of the Niger in 

 about 8° B. lat. where he met with a few of these birds in 

 company with Serinus hartlauhi, feeding together on the 

 ground. 



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