NIGRITA CANICAPILLA 141 
Through the kindness of Dr. Reichenow I have been able 
to compare one of Dr. Preuss’s typical specimens from Buea 
with the British Museum collection, and find it there well 
represented; from Camaroons, by one of Crossley’s specimens, 
and by six shot by Mr. Bates at the Ja River; one from 
Gaboon, and one, in fine plumage, obtained by Jameson at 
Yambuya, close to the junction of the Aruwimi with the Congo 
River. 
I doubt whether N. bicolor satwratior, Reichenow, known 
only by the type from “Atjanga in Uvamba, July (Emin),” is 
distinct from N. brunnescens. 
Nigrita canicapilla. 
AMthiops canicapilla, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 30 Fernando Po. 
Nigrita canicapilla, Fraser, Zool. Typ. pl. 48 (1849) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 
xiii. p. 315 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 365 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 170 (1904). 
Nigrita cinereicapilla (laps. cal.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 385. 
Adults. Forehead and front of crown jet black, like the entire sides of 
the head and the under parts; hinder half of the crown and neck and 
the mantle deep lead grey, fading into a white margin next to the black 
of the head and middle throat; the back fading into white just below the 
middle, and then shading again into grey on the rump; upper tail-coverts 
dusky black; tail entirely jet black; wings black, with fairly large white 
terminal spots to the lesser, median and greater coverts and the innermost 
secondaries; lining of wing dusky black, with paler inner edges to the 
quills, and the coverts white, with a border of black and white next to the 
bend of the wing. ‘Iris yellow; bill black; tarsi and feet brown.” Total 
length 5:4 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2:8 and 2°75, tail 2:0, tarsus 0-65. 
3, 2, Fernando Po (Alexander). 
Immature. Upper parts darker and more slaty grey than in the adults ; 
pale border between the grey and black of the head and neck less sharply 
defined ; middle and lower back ashy grey; wings with the lesser coverts 
entirely black, or with three small white spots; median coverts with three 
small whitish terminal spots; greater coverts and innermost secondaries 
with dusky white tips; under parts mottled, dusky grey and black. Gaboon 
(Verreaux) ; Landana (Petit). 
