370 Annals of the South African Museum. 



64A. AMADINA FASCIATA (Gmel.). 



The East African species, Amadina fasciata, often called the Cut- 

 throat Weaver Finch by bird fanciers, must be added to the list of 

 South African Birds. 



It is easily distinguished by the transverse band of red on the 

 throat and by the absence of red on the crown. 



Dr. Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey, has sent to the South African 

 Museum a pair obtained at George's Ferry, near Zumbo on the 

 Zambesi, on February 12, 1904, while this year I saw alive in an 

 aviary at the house of Mr. Marshall Hole, the Civil Commissioner of 

 Bulawayo, a pair which he assures me were caught in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of that town. 



Hitherto it does not appear to have been met with south of Dar- 

 es-Salaam in German East Africa. 



65. QUELEA QUELEA (Linn.). 



Eeichenow (Vog. Afr. i. p. 110) regards Q. quelca and Q. russi 

 as identical. He terms this bird Quelca sanguinirostris lathami, 

 and considers it a subspecies of the West African typical form 

 Quelea sanguinirostris or Quelca quelea. 



66A. QUELEA CARDINALIS (Hartl.). 



A pair of weavers undoubtedly referable to this species have 

 recently been presented to the South African Museum by Dr. 

 Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey. They were obtained at Kanyani 

 in the Zambesi valley near Zumbo. Previously the most southerly 

 record was the shores of Lake Tanganyika. 



6?A. PYKOMELANA ORYX SUNDEVALLI (Bp.). 



Under this name the smaller form of the Bed Bishop Bird may 

 be distinguished ; it differs from the typical subspecies only in its 

 much smaller size wing of a male 2'65, as compared with 3 - 0. 



67s. PYROMELANA FLAJJMICEPS (Swains.). 



This widely distributed tropical species extends as far south as 

 the Zambesi Valley, where it was obtained by Alexander (Ibis, 1899, 

 p. 567). The South African Museum contains an example from the 

 Zambesi Valley in the neighbourhood of Zumbo, procured by Dr. 

 Stoehr, of the Geodetic Survey. It resembles P. oryx, but has a 

 scarlet head and very much blacker wings. 



