144 NIGRITA EMILI® 
forming terminal bars to these feathers. ‘Iris red; bill and feet black” 
(Biittikofer). Total length 4:1 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2:5, tail 1-7, 
tarsus 0°6. Fantee. 
Immature. Uniform sooty black, slightly greyer on the lower back, and 
blacker on the upper tail-coverts and tail; under surface of wings dusky 
brown, with paler edges to the quills and under wing-coverts, the inner 
portion of the latter and the axillaries pure white. ‘‘Iris yellowish white ; 
bill black; feet smoky brown” (Biittikofer). Wing 2:4. Volta River 
(Ussher). 
Emily’s Negro- Finch ranges from Sierra Leone into 
Togoland. 
In the British Museum there is a specimen from Sierra 
Leone, which was formerly in the late Lord Tweeddale’s 
collection, and Mr. Kemp has procured one at Bo. Demery 
met with these birds at the Sulymah River, and Mr. Biittikofer 
at Schieffelinsville and Hill Town, in Liberia. The latter 
naturalist first described the immature bird, showing that the 
colouring varies with age, a common character in the members 
of this genus, and in the present instance the peculiar white 
marking on the wing-coverts is attained by age only. 
The type was discovered by the late Governor Ussher in 
Fantee, where he found the species to be common at Cape 
Coast and the Forest of Denkera, as well as at the Volta 
River. During my short visit to the Gold Coast with 
T. E. Buckley, we found the species frequenting the more 
wooded districts, and brought home a specimen from Abouri, 
in the Aguapim Mountains, where Dr. Reichenow found it 
abundant. Mr. Boyd Alexander met with it at Prahsu, and 
Mr. Baumann at Akome and Podji in Togoland. 
In the British Museum there are fourteen specimens from 
the Gold Coast, of which four are immature, including one 
passing into full plumage. Its occurrence in Gaboon I look 
upon as extremely improbable. Dr. Oustalet records a speci- 
men in M. Avinene’s collection from that country, and in 
