138 NIGRITA FUSCONOTA 
Nigrita fusconota. 
Nigrita fusconota, Fraser, P. Z. 5., 1842, p. 145 Fernando Po ; id. Zool. 
Typ. pl. 49 (1849); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 371 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 168 (1904). 
Percnopsis dorsofusea, Heine. J. f. O. 1860, p. 144. 
Nigrita pinaronota, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 318 (1890). 
Adults. Upper half of the head, back of upper neck, upper tail-coverts, 
lesser wing-coverts, edges of median coverts and of a few of the scapulars 
glossy violet-shaded black ; rump and tail dull black ; remainder of the back 
of the neck and back, and inner portion of wing, uniform earth brown; outer 
portion of wing dark brown, with the under coverts and the inner margins of 
the quills white; lower half of the head and the entire under parts white. 
“Tris brown; bill black; feet grey” (Preuss). Total length 4:2 inches, 
culmen 0:4, wing 21 and 2:0, tail 2:0, tarsus 0°55. g, ?, Fernando Po 
(Alexander). 
Fraser's White-breasted Negro-Finch ranges from Fer- 
nando Po into the Ruwenzori Mountains and the Congo 
district. 
The type, which was discovered at Clarence, on Fernando 
Po, by Fraser, is now in the British Museum. Regarding its 
occurrence on this island Mr. Boyd Alexander writes: ‘ Rare. 
Found on high ground, frequenting the topmost branches of 
tall trees in sunny clearings.” In Camaroons it has been 
procured by Dr. Preuss, in the highlands at Buea, and by 
Mr. Bates at the Ja River; in Central Africa by Mr. 
Jackson, from the Ruwenzori district; and in Gaboon Du 
Chaillu collected specimens at the Moonda and Camma 
Rivers. I do not find the species yet recorded from the 
Congo River, but it would appear to be abundant in Loango, 
having been met with there at Chinchonxo by Falkenstein, 
and at Landana by Lucan and Petit. 
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