446 



BULLETIN 153, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



(40); culmen, 9-10 (9.8); tarsus, 12.5-13 (12.9 mm). Females- 

 wing, 47-50 (49) ; tail, 37.5-39 (38.1) ; culmen, 9-9.5 (9.1) ; tarsus, 

 11.5-13.5 (12.2 mm). 



30" 



20* 



O too zeo 30 4- 00 J-Q O Mites 

 • SCALE • 

 Figure 29. — Distribution of Lagonosticta senegala in northeastern Africa. 



1. L. s. brunneiceps. i. L. s. kihuyuensis. 



2. L. 8. ahayensis. 5. L. s. ruberritna. 

 S, L. 8. somalieiisia. 



The Abyssinian red-billed fire-finch has been collected and obtained 

 in various parts of northern, central, and south-central Ethiopia by 

 numerous individuals, as Blanford, Harris, Antinori, Ragazzi, Zed- 

 litz, Zaphiro and Erlanger. Shelley ^^ has summarized the then- 



•«' The birds of Africa, vol. 4, p. 259, 1905. 



