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ness of its tail ! The bill is comparatively large, the first primary minute, the 

 second normal, not attenuated, and very little shorter than the third, fourth, 

 and fifth. I propose for this species the new generic name : 



Mandingoa, gen. nov. 



Judging from two adult males collected by Rudolf Grauer 80 km. north of 

 Kasongo, which I take to be typical nitidula (described from Lake Tangan- 

 yika), the Lagonosticta harterti is not quite identical with nitidula, the latter being 

 darker, more brownish on the abdomen, and the white spots on the chest 

 smaller, while the vinous pink of the throat and breast appears to be brighter. 

 These birds will therefore have to be called Lagonosticta nitidula nitidula, while 

 the Angolan form will be Lagonosticta nitidula harterti. 



133. Lagonosticta senegala rendalli Hart. = Lagonosticta senegala rendalli. 

 Lagonosticta senegala rendalli Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1898. p. 72 (Upper Shir6 River). 



Type: S ad., Upper Shire River, B.C. Africa, 9. v. 1895. Dr. Percy 

 Rendall leg. No. 13. 



134. Lagonosticta senegala abayensis Neum. = Lagonosticta senegala abayensis. 



Lagonosticta senegala abayensis Neumann, Joum. /. Orn. 1905. p. 349 (Giditsoho Island, Lake Abaya), 



Type : J ad., Giditscho Is., Lake Abaya, 27. xii. 1900. Oscar Neumann 

 leg. No. 502. 



f 135. Lagonosticta senegala erythreae Neum. = Lagonosticta senegala brunneiceps. 

 Lagonosticta senegala erythreae Neumann, Joum, /, Orn, 1905. p. 349 (" Bogosland, Erythrea "). 



Type : (J ad., Adarte, 16. xi. 1899 (not 16. ii. 1899 as quoted by Neumann). 

 G. Schrader leg. 



There can be no doubt that erythreae is the same as brunneiceps from Eritrea. 

 See under 136. 



136. Lagonosticta senegala pallidicrissa Zedl. = Lagonosticta senegala 



pallidicrissa. 



Lagonosticta senegala pallidicrissa Zedlitz, Orn. Monateber. 1910, p, 173 (Angola). 



Type : S ad., Humpata, Mossamedes, 16. ii. 1906. W. J. Ansorge leg. 

 No. 276. 



A useful review of the subspecies of Lagonosticta senegala is given by Count 

 Zedlitz in Orn. Monatsber. 1910, pp. 171-174. There is, however, an error in 

 it, under which also Neumann, Joum. j. Orn. 1905, p. 349, laboured, and for 

 which our late friend R. Bowdler Sharpe is really responsible. When Sharpe 

 Cai. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 277, 1890, first named Lagonosticta brunneiceps, he 

 united under this name specimens of various subspecies, viz. from " North- 

 eastern Africa throughout Eastern Africa, and the south-east and south-west 

 portions of the continent," and he unfortunately omitted to fix any "terra 

 typica " or any tjrpe ! Neumann (Joum. f. Orn. 1905, p. 349) called two males 

 irom the Gelo River L. s. brunneiceps, and described L. s. erythreae and abayensis. 

 The two " brunneiceps " from the G!elo should belong to the pale brunneiceps, 



