i88 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



218. Coccopygia kilimensis Sharpe. 



Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, XIII. (1890) 

 p. 307. Mt. Kilimanjaro district, East Africa. 

 6\ Jan., Kijabe. 



219. Lepidopygia nigriceps (Cass.). 



Spermestes nigriceps Cassin, Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1852, p. 185. Zanzibar. 

 d\ 9 , May, Nairobi. 



i specimen without data. 



See OBERHOLSER, Proceedings National Museum, Washington, 

 1905, pp. 882, 883, characters of Lepidopygia. 



220. Estrilda astrild minor (Cab.}. 



Habropyga minor Cabanis, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1878, p. 229. 

 Voi River, British East Africa. 



d\ d\ d\ d 1 , c?,9, Nov., Nairobi. 



221. Estrilda rhodopyga Sundevall. 



Oefversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Forhandlingar 

 (Stockholm) 1850, p. 126. East Africa. 



d\ d, 9 , Dec., Lucania. 



Family Oriolidse. 



222. Oriolus oriolus (Linn.). 



Coracias oriolus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, zoth ed. I. (1758) 

 p. 107. 



9 , Oct., Tana River. 



223. Oriolus larvatus rolleti (Salvad.). 



Oriolus rolleti Salvadori, Atti della Societa Italiana, Milan, VII. 

 (1864) p. 161. White Nile. 



?, d 1 , d\9, Jan., Kijabe. 



9,9,9, Nov., Athi River. 



d\ 9, Apr., Voi. 



The wing of the largest is 134 mm. A female in fresh plumage has 

 the wing 119 mm. The average wing measurement of the males is 

 131 mm., and of the females is 122 mm. 



