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present bird, when compared with X. scolopacea, the type 

 of the genus. 



Ibis, 1869, p. 383. — Nedarinia angolensis (no. 67). By some 

 unaccountable mistake the name of this species was inserted 

 instead of that of N. adalberti; and I hasten to correct the 

 oversight. Further investigation may prove the former to 

 be an inhabitant of Fantee ; but as yet the species has 

 not been shewn to occur there. 



, p. 384. — Lamprocolius purpureiceps (no. 71). M. Jules 



Verreaux, who has seen my specimen, tells me that it is L. 

 cupreicauda (Temm.). 



, p. 384. — Nigrita emilia (no. 75). I am not so san- 



guine as I was concerning the distinctness of this new 

 species from N. cinereicapilla. It appears that all Nigritce 

 take a considerable time to get their fully adult plumage ; 

 thus N. luteifrons, from Gaboon, is grey underneath in the 

 young, black in the adult ; and if this is the case in one 

 species, the absence of a white rump in another ought not 

 to be of much consequence. Moreover, in Mr. Ussher^s 

 last collection is a Nigrita from the Volta, which may be 

 described as follows : — Unicolor ardesiaca, uropygio concolori, 

 Cauda nitenti-nigra : subalaribus interioribus dorse proximis 

 albidis. Mr. Ussher considers this to be a new species ; but I 

 should like to see some additional specimens before decid- 

 ing on the question, as it may be the very young of iV. 

 cinereicapilla, and my N. emilice the same species in an inter- 

 mediate stage of plumage. On the other hand, however, 

 I have seen in my own and in Mr. Swanzy's collection at 

 least twenty specimens of N. emilicB from Fantee, and not 

 one of them had the white rump of N. cinereicapilla. 



, p. 385. — Musophaga gigantea (no. 80). Mr. Ussher 



has sent a fine specimen, shot at Accra, Feb. 1870. 



p. 386. — Trachyphonus purpuratus (no. 86). My 



specimens were not, as I supposed, the young of this species, 

 but turn out to be the nearly allied, but distinct T. goffini 

 [cf. Marshall, Monogr. Capiton. pt. 4). 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 52. — Criniger pallescens (no. 98). From a com- 

 parison of the type of Swainson's PhyUastrephus scandens, 



