270 rLOCEIDJE. 



and axillarics pale isabcUine with a slight tawny tinge ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy isabclliue along the edge of the inner web : " bill 

 crimson ; tarsus and feet very light brown ; iris light reddish hazel " 

 (Ayrcs). Total length 3-4 inches, culmen 04, wing 2-1, tail 0-95, 

 tafsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but wants the black on the 

 face and throat, these spots being dark ashy brown. The markings 

 are the same as in the male, but the uuder surface of the body is 

 paler and the bars browner and less pronounced ; " upper mandible 

 black, lower one red ; tarsi and feet pale ; iris light reddish hazel " 

 (T. Ayrcs). Total length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-15, tail 

 1-15, tarsus 0"6. 



Bah. South-east Africa, through the interior of Eastern Africa 

 to Abyssinia and on the west to Senegal. 



2. Ortygospiza atricoUis. 



FringiUa atricollis, Vieill. N. Diet. xii. p. 182 (1817) ; id. Enc. Mith. 



iii. p. 990 (1823). 

 Estrelda atricollis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849). 

 Amadina lunulata, Ilartl. Orn. Wedafr. p. 148 (1857, ex Temm. 



MSS.). 

 Amadina polyzona, Ilartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 148 (1857, pt.). 

 Ortygospiza atricollis, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 138 ; 



lieicheiib. Si?iyv. p. 26 (1801); muyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, 



p. 598 (1870), iv. App. p. cxxxv (1871) ; Fiyisch, Trans. Z. S. vii. 



p. 325, note (1870) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 338 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 32. 

 Amadina atricollis. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 57, no. 6799 (1870). 

 Amadina lunulata. Gray, t. c. p. 57, no. 6800 (1870). 

 ? Ortygospiza polyzona, Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 352 (18Sl) ; BUttik. 



Notes Leyden Mns. viii. p. 259 (1886). 



Adult male. Similar to the male of 0. polyzona, but distinguished 

 by the entirely black throat and sides of face, which only show a 

 few whitish plumelets round the eye. Total length 3-7 inches, 

 culmen 0-35, wing 2-1, tail 0-9, tarsus 0-5. 



