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Prof. Neumann has shown that Penthetria hartlaubi Cab. and Coliuspasser dubiosus 

 Neumann are males of this species in winter-plumage. 



Three immature birds (a-c) procured in the Mubuku Valley are almost certainly 

 referable to the present species ; they have black under wing-coverts as in the adult 

 male and generally resemble that bird, especially as regards the size and shape of 

 the bill. 



The immature female may be described as follows : — 



Top of the head and upperparts black, each feather margined on the sides with 

 sandy-bufF, the margins being narrowest on the feathers of the forehead ; superciliary 

 stripe and sides of the neck mostly buff; cheeks mottled black and buff; underparts 

 buff, whitish on the middle of the belly, the chest and sides of the breast being 

 darkest, each feather with a small subterminal triangular black spot at the extremity ;. 

 upper wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers black, margined with sandy-buff; under 

 wing-coverts black : wing 2'8 inches ; tail 2'0. 



The immature male resembles the above, but is somewhat larger and the chest is 

 marked with brighter yellowish-buff: wing 3*0 inches ; tail 2T5. 



[A few examples of Ansorge's Bishop-bird were seen near Fort Beni in the Semliki 

 Valley. The male procured was breeding. — R. B. W.~] 



Pykomelana flammiceps (Swains.). 



Pyromelana flammiceps Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 118 (1904) ; Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 104 (1905); 

 Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 561 [Toro] ; Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 269 [Lake Tanganyika and 

 Kasongo]. 



a. 6 . Lower Semliki Valley, 2500 ft., 11th Oct. [No. 564. B. E. I).] 



Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet flesh-colour. 



This specimen of the Fire-crowned Bishop-bird is in worn breeding-dress, and has a 

 few feathers of the winter-plumage beginning to make their appearance on the throat. 

 It is an interesting specimen, having a distinct black band 3 mm. in width above 

 the base of the culmen. 



There is a perfectly similar specimen in the British Museum procured by Sir H. 

 H. Johnston at Nandi ; and out of four specimens sent by Emin from Tingasi, two 

 have a well-marked narrow black band across the forehead, one has a narrow line of 

 black feathers, while the fourth has the forehead orange-scarlet to the base of 

 the culmen. 



I have examined a large series of males in breeding-plumage and make the 

 following notes : — 



13 adult males from Sierra Leone. Mostly with a single row of black feathers at the base of the 



culmen ; the remaining specimens have the forehead orange-scarlet to 

 the base of the culmen. 

 8 ,, „ Gold Coast. As above. 



