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17. ORTYGOSPIZA. 



Type. 

 Ortygospiza, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Stockh. 18^0, 

 p. 98 0. polyzona. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. White on the chin and round the eve polyzona, p. 269. 



b. No white on chin or round the eye, both these 



parts being black atricollis, p. 270. 



1. Ortygospiza polyzona. 



Friugilla polyzona, Temm. PL Co^. iii. pi. 221. fig. 3 (1823) ; Ilcvgl. 

 Syst. Uebers. p. 40 (1856). 



Amadina polyzona, Riipp. Nene Wirb., Vog. p. 101 (1835-40) ; id. 

 Syst. Uebers. p. 77 (1845; ; Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 148 (1857, 

 pt.) ; Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 408 (1870). 



Eslrelda polyzona, Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 117 (1845) 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 368 (1849) ; Licht. NotneticL Av. p. 48 (1854) 

 Layurd,B. 8. Afr. p. 198(1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 162 

 Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 370 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 57, no. 0798 

 (1870) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 355. 



Ortygospiza polyzona, Sinidev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 

 1850, p. 98; B]). Consp. i. p. 465 (1850) : Reichenb. Singv. p. 26, 

 Taf. Vn. iig. 66 (1861); Ayres, Ibis, 1863, p. 329; Sharp>e, Cat. 

 Afr. B. p. 66 (1871); Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 282, 1878, p. 297, 

 1880, p. 107; Sharps in Oaies' Matabele-Ld. App. p. 321 (1881) ; 

 id. eel. Layara's B. S. Afr. p. 457 (1884) ; Bidler, Feilden, <^ Reid, 

 Zool. 1882, p. i99 ; Salvad. Ann. Mm. Genov. (2) i. p. 179 (1884); 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 337 ; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 71. 



Ortygospiza fuscocrissa, Ileugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 18. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, slightly mottled with 

 darker brown centres to the feathers ; wing-coverts dusky brown, 

 fringed with ashy ; the greater coverts rather darker ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills lighter brown, the first primary 

 margined with white, the secondaries fringed with ashy like the 

 coverts ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers brown, edged 

 with lighter brown, the two outer ones with a white spot at the 

 end of the outer web ; crown of head like the back, tie base of fore- 

 head black, extending backwards in a line above the eye, below this 

 black line being a distinct white one ; lores blackish ; eyelid and a 

 streak below the eye white ; ear-coverts and sides of neck dark ashy 

 brown ; cheeks and feathers below the eye blackish, extending 

 backwards over the fore part of the ear-coverts ; chin white ; throat 

 black ; fore neck ashy blackish, banded narrowly with white ; 

 breast light chestnut ; abdomen isabelline ; sides of body and 

 flanks brown, barred with white, each white bar having a corre- 

 sponding bar of black ; thighs fulvous ; under tail-coverts pale 

 tawny buff, with longitudinal black centres ; under wing-coverts 



