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tarsi and feet brownish flesh colour. Wing 2°5, tail 1:5, tarsus 0°75. Connor’s 
Hill (Shelley). 
Adult male in winter plumage. Similar in colouring to the female, but 
with the wings blacker. g, 26. 2.72. Abokobi (Shelley). 
The Fire-crowned Bishop-bird inhabits Tropical Africa 
generally between 17° N. lat. and 18° S. lat., ranging from 
Senegal into Benguela on the west, and from the Zambesi 
into Abyssinia in Hastern Africa. 
The type of the species came from Senegambia. Sir A. 
Moloney and Dr. P. Rendall have procured specimens at the 
Gambia; Verreaux from Casamanse; Beaudouin at Bissao ; 
Bulger and Fea on Bulama, one of the Bissagos Islands ; 
and in the British Museum there is a specimen from Sierra 
Leone. Demery obtained specimens at the Sulymah River 
in Liberia, and Mr. Biittikofer records them as tolerably 
common in the vicinity of Robertsport, at Grand Cape Mount, 
on the grassy plains behind Schieffelinsville, at Oldfield, and 
on Gallilee Mountain, and according to his notes, the adult 
males frequent the tops of the canes, where they remain for 
hours, quite isolated from other birds, and even from their 
females and young ones, being apparently proud of their 
brilliant plumage, as they are indefatigable in exposing it 
in the most obvious manner. 
These Bishop-birds are abundant throughout our Gold 
Coast possessions and in Togoland, where the males assume 
the bright red plumage for the breeding and rainy season, 
which lasts from the latter part of April to the end of August. 
They frequent the more open country, often in flocks, accom- 
panied by P. franciscanus. Drs. Reichenow and Luhder found 
them breeding abundantly on the plains of Accra, and with 
young in August. The nest is of the same oval form as with 
members of the genus Hyphantornis, but is hung singly from 
the high grass and constructed of fine grass. Mr. Boyd 
