106 PYROMELANA FLAMMICEPS 
Alexander writes: “During our stay at Gambaga, from 
January to May, this species was not observed, although 
Capt. Giffard obtained a male specimen there in August.” 
Around Cape Coast and Accra he found the species, in 
breeding plumage, plentiful in the damp reedy localities, 
which situations they appeared to leave after the nesting 
season. 
In the Niger district the species has been met with by 
Falkenstein at Bonny; by Forbes, in full plumage in August, 
at Abutchi; and by Dr. Hartert at Loko on the Benué, where 
he found it fairly abundant. In Camaroons Dr. Zenker 
procured the species at Jaunde, where it was known to 
the natives as the ‘‘ Kopisong,”’ and it has been recorded 
from St. Thomas Island. In the British Museum there 
are specimens from Gaboon, and from Landana on _ the 
Loango Coast. Along the course of the Congo River my 
late friend, Jameson, while with the Stanley Expedition, met 
with the species, and other specimens have been collected 
here by Kellen at Boma, by Bohndorff at Kassango, and 
by Capt. Storms during his expedition up that river to Lake 
Tanganyika. There is a specimen from Angola, obtained 
by Furtado d’Antas, in the British Museum. Welwitsch 
found it known to the natives at Galungo-alto as the ‘‘ Saco,” 
and it has been recorded as abundant by Mr. Monteiro at 
Bembe and Cambambe, and by Anchieta at Quissange. 
At the Zambesi River, towards Zumbo, Mr. Boyd 
Alexander found these Bishop-birds ‘‘not so common as P. 
sundevalli, from which they can be readily distinguished in 
flight by their larger size and blackish wings. The song 
of the male is peculiar 
the depths of some reed-bed, being especially loud after rain.” 
Sir John Kirk in 1864 recorded the species from the Zambesi and 
Shiré Rivers, In Nyasaland, according to General Manning, 
a running voluble ‘ tiz,’ uttered from 
