184 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



199. Serinus sharpii Neumann. 



Journal fur Ornithologie, 1900, pp. 287, 288. Mt. Kilimanjaro. 

 9 , Dec., Lucania. 



200. Passer rufocinctus Fischer & Reichenow. 



Journal fur Ornithologie, 1884, p. 55. Lake Naivasha. 

 d\ 9 , Oct., d\ 9 , Dec., Lucania. 

 tf, d\ March, Gilgil. 

 cJ 1 , Jan., Naivasha. 



See HARTERT, Novitates Zoologica, 1900, p. 42, Passer moti- 

 tensis rufocinctus. 



201. Petronia pyrgita (Heugl.*). 



Xanthodina pyrgita Heuglin, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1862, p. 30. 

 Abyssinia. 



d\ Oct., Tana River. 



This specimen is darker and larger than specimens in this Museum 

 from Somaliland. Wing 87 mm. 



202. Emberiza flaviventris Stephens. 



Shaw's General Zoology, IX, pt. 2, (1815) p. 374. South Africa. 



9,9, Jan., Kijabe. 



See SHARPE, Ibis, 1891, p. 259, A large gray-flanked specimen; 

 NEUMANN, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, p. 359, African forms of 

 yellow-breasted sparrows. 



Family Ploceidse. 



203. Diatropura procne delamerei (Shelley). 



Coliuspasser delamerei Shelley, Bulletin of the British Ornitholo- 

 gist's Club, XIII, (1903) p. 73. North Kenya, British East Africa. 



cT, cT, d\ cT, Jan., Naivasha. 



"The males were constantly dancing. Their long tails retarded 

 their movements, and often caused them to turn in the air, facing 

 the wind, in spite of their desire to go in some other direction. The 

 females were exceedingly active, and far outnumbered the males." 



204. Drepanoplectes jacksoni Sharpe. 



Ibis, 1891, p. 246. Masailand, British East Africa. 

 d\ c?, d\ d\ (5\ 9 , Jan., Naivasha. 

 d\ d\ cT, d\ d\ c?, 9 , Nov., Nairobi. 

 d\ 9 , Dec., Lucania. 



