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surface of tail dark crimson with a brownish tinge. ‘Iris dark crimson ; 
eyelids, with the portion above and below the eye pure white; bill glossy 
blue black; tarsi, feet and claws brownish flesh-colour.” Total length 5 
inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2°45, tail 1:9, tarsus 0'7. Sierra Leone (Kemp). 
Adult female. Differs in having the nape and back of neck brown, the 
former slightly tinted with red; the red not extending below the centre of 
the crop, and the flanks only slightly washed with that colour. Wing 2-4. 
Sierra Leone (Kemp). 
Immature. More olive brown, with the red duller and confined to the 
upper tail-coverts and tail. Sierra Leone (Kemp). 
Cassin’s Notch-billed Weaver inhabits Sierra Leone and 
Liberia. 
When Cassin first named the species he had several 
examples from Sierra Leone and Monrovia, and evidently 
figured an adult male. Mr. Kemp has recently collected a 
series of sixteen specimens from Rotifunk (October), Jamba- 
mah and Bo (August and September), proving that this species 
is distinct from the larger and more northern form, LP. san- 
guineus, which it closely resembles in the brown colouring of 
both sexes, and differs from P. osfrinus chiefly in the brown 
colouring of the males. He writes: “In habits, these birds 
closely resemble Lagonosticta polionota, and frequent the same 
swamps and farms as Spermospiza hematina. They are 
extremely wily, and in moving from one place to another rise 
high in the air and fly rapidly, with many twists and undula- 
tions, and are difficult to approach within gun-shot; but by 
placing snares among the young rice, in localities they were 
known to frequent, I obtained the present species and 
Spermospiza hematina, in about equal numbers. <A hen obtained 
on August 22 contained an egg, from which i conclude they 
breed here in August and September.” 
In the month of October Mr. Biittikofer found a colony 
of about ten nests, placed in a clump of trees growing in a 
marsh near Robertsport. The nests were very large and 
