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feathers blackish nearly to the base, with very little chestnut? 

 and the outer pair of tail-feathers black on both webs to the 

 base, only the tips being white, and measuring 12-16 mm. 

 in width. E. munda, which also inhabits the same part of 

 Northern Angola, is easily distinguished by its larger size, 

 the white edges to the primary-quills, and the much wider 

 white tips to the outer pair of tail-feathers, 20-26 mm. in 

 width. The bill also is longer, and the dark streaks on the 

 under surface are fewer, less distinct, and confined to the 

 chest, whereas in E. ansorgii they commence on the throat. 



Iris dark brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible 

 ochre-yellow, becoming black at the tip; feet pale bistre or 

 pinkish-brown ( J ) or greenish-bistre ( ? ). 



Male. Total length ca. 145 mm. ; wing 65-66 ; tail 58- 

 59 ; tarsus 24'5. 



Female. Total length ca. 135 mm. ; wing 63 ; tail 55 ; 

 tarsus 23. 



Hab. North Angola. 



Types in the British Museum : $ . No. 165, Malange, 

 15.ii.09; ?. No. 1074, Ndala Tando, 21.x. 08. W. J. 

 Ansorge coll. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant also made the following remarks :— 

 " In my Report on the Birds of the Ruwenzori Expedition 

 I followed Dr. Reichenow (cf. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 496) in 

 uniting Elminia teresita Antinori with E. longicauda (Swain- 

 son). On re-examining the specimens with additional 

 material it is evident that the white-bellied E. teresita rang- 

 ing from the north of Victoria Nyanza and Albert Nyanza 

 to Camaroon and Angola is at once separable from E. longi- 

 cauda, which is found from Nigeria to the Gold Coast and 

 Sierra Leone. The birds collected by Mr. G. L. Bates on 

 the River Ja, Camaroon, and recorded by Sharpe as E. longi- 

 cauda, should have been referred to E. teresita." 



" At the last Meeting of the Club I drew the attention 

 of the Members to the colour of the axillary plumes in the 

 Common Wigeon and American Wigcon as affording an 



