21 JANUARY 1911, Page 16

A BIRD OF NIGERIA.

[To TILE EDITOR 07 TER "SPECTATOR.") SIE,—In your last week's issue I have read a letter from Major H. D. Larymore asking for the name of a bird from Nigeria. The species he refers to is without any doubt the helmet-shrike (Prionops plumata). It answers his description exactly. The late Mr. Boyd Alexander also met with it in Nigeria, and says that it frequents the wooded banks of rivers and streams, and is generally observed in small flocks of five or six individuals.—I am, Sir, &c., W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT.

British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Bd., S.W.