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Adult female. Differs from the female of 0. polyzona in the same 

 way as the male, viz. by the eutirel)^ black face and chin. Total 

 lenjjth 4-1 inches, culmcn 0*35, wing 2"05, tail 0-95, tarsus 0"55. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Niger to Angola, extending across 

 to Equatorial Africa. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Lokoja, R. Niger (IF. A. F.). Forbes Coll. 



6, f. d" 2 ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaillu). Sharpe Coll. 



d, e, f. S 2 ad. Redjaf, Equatorial Africa, Emiu Pasha [P.]. 



etjuv.sk. Nov. & Jan. 



18. LAGONOSTICTA. 



Type. 

 Lagonosticta, Cah. Mws. Hein. Th. i. p. 171 (1850) . . L. rubricata. 



Hypargus, Renhcyih. Singv. p. Ul (1861) L. margaritata. 



Mormolycia, Reichenh. t. c. p. 67 (1861) L. larvata. 



Rhodopyga, Heu(/L J.f. 0. 1868, p. 13 L. rhodopsis. 



Lychnidospiza, Ileiigl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. 

 p. exxxvii (1871) L. rara. 



Tail of Lagonosticta rubricata. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



With no black on head or throat. 

 «'. With crimson or scarlet on the throat. 



a" . Red on throat confined to a triangular patch ; 

 remainder of head and throat grey ; under 

 surface of body chestnut-brown, thickly 

 spotted and barred with white, including 



the under tail-coverts monteiri, p. 273. 



b". Entire throat and chest rosy or crimson, or 

 tinged with the latter colour. 

 a'". Breast and sides of body black, thickly 

 spotted with ovate spots of white. 

 «^. Spots of breast smaller and snow- 

 white niveigidtata, p. 274. 



6'. Spots of breast larger and shaded with 



pink margaritata, p. 275. 



