188 URZGINTHUS BENGALUS 
In the Gold Coast district Mr. Boyd Alexander found the 
species plentiful, and procured specimens at Gomieri and as far 
inland as Gambaga, where it had previously been met with 
by Capt. Giffard. Drs. Reichenow and Lithder found it on 
the Accra plains, and in Togoland it has been obtained near 
Krachi and Mangu. A little further down the coast, at Abeo- 
kuta, Mr. Robin procured the species. In the Niger district 
specimens have been collected by Falkenstemm at Bonny on 
the coast, and on the Benue branch of the river by Forbes 
at Loko, and according to Dr. Hartert it is plentiful in this 
country. It has also been recorded from Hastern Camaroons 
(Carnap). Hartlaub has mentioned a specimen procured by 
Gugon in Gaboon, and in the Congo district Falkenstein met 
with it during his visit to Chinchonxo on the Loango coast, 
Sperling, near the mouth of the river, Bohndorff, far inland, at 
Kassongo on the Lualaba branch, and Storms obtained it during 
his Tanganyika expedition. Prof. Barboza du Bocage mentions 
it from as far south as Loanda, and makes the following very 
interesting remark that the country ‘‘ Bengala”’ of Brisson and 
Linnzeus was intended for Benguela. ‘‘ Brisson writes: ‘ On le 
trouve dans le Royaume de Bengala. Du cabinet de M. de 
Réaumur.’ Nothing is more easy than to have substituted 
Bengala for Benguela. In fact, our African colony of 
Benguela has long been a central market for small singing 
birds, which are brought here regularly from the coast and 
the interior.” 
In Eastern Africa, the most southern locality yet recorded 
for this species is the Rovuma River, where the late Joseph 
Thomson procured a female specimen; it has also been 
recorded from Undis and New Heligoland (Fiilleborn). It is 
apparently abundant and generally distributed over German 
and British East Africa. Bohm procured specimens at Kakoma 
and in the Ugogo country, and found it in pairs or family 
