142 NIGRITA DIABOLICA 
Strickland’s Negro-Finch ranges over West Africa from 
Abeokuta on the Slave Coast and the Lower Niger into 
Angola, _ 
The British Museum contains a specimen from Abeokuta 
(Robin), three of the typical examples from Fernando Po, a 
male and two females from the Ja River in Camaroons (Bates), 
several from Gaboon (Du Chaillu), three males and a female 
from Chinchonxo and Landana (Petit), a male and female from 
the Aruwimi River (Jameson), and one of Hamilton’s from 
Angola. 
The species was discovered by Fraser on the Island of 
Fernando Po, where, according to Mr. Boyd Alexander, 
“this species is widely distributed on the high ground, 
frequenting thick trees in pairs. In flight the white on the 
rump is very conspicuous.” In Camaroons it is abundant, 
and Mr. Sjéstedt found it there at Bibundi and Bonge. He 
remarks that it is not often seen in mid-day, but towards 
twilight passed the station in noisy swarms to roost in the 
cotton plantations. It feeds on seeds, larve and small snails. 
In the most southern range known for these Negro-Finches 
they have been procured by Hamilton at Casengo and Galungo 
Alto near the Quanza River, and eastward by Bohndorff at 
Kibonge on the Congo, in nearly 1° S. lat, 
Nigrita diabolica. 
Atopornis diabolica, Reichen. and Neum. Orn. Monatsb. 1895, p. 74 
Kifinika. 
Nigrita diabolica, Reichen. V6g. Afr. iii. p. 171 (1904). 
Artomyias diabolica, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 1331 (1896). 
Nigrita kretschmeri, Reichen. Orn. Monatsh. 1895, p. 187 Kifinika. 
Nigrita dohertyi, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 12 (1901) Maw. 
Type of N. dohertyi. Intermediate between N. canicapilla and N. emilia, 
resembling the former in its general colouring and in having white tips to 
