18. LAGONOSTICTA. 273 



d'" . Lower abdomen and under tail-coverts 



black perreini, p. 285. 



f>. With black on the face and throat. 



c'. Black of head and throat sun-oimded by red. 

 e". Black of crown confined to forehead ; chest 



red, with no white spots on the sides .... vinacea, p. 286. 

 /". Front half of crown and lower chest black, 



with white spots on sides of chest larvata, p. 286. 



(T. Black of head surrounded by grey ; forehead, 

 crown, mantle, and breast unifirm grey, with 

 white spots on the sides of the chest nif/7'icollis, p. 286. 



1. Lagonosticta monteiri. 



Pytelia monteiri, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. Ill, pi. 161 ; Reichenb. 



Sinyv. p, 25 (1861); Sharpe S)- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. Frcmce, 



i. p. 309 (1876); Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 29; Hartl. Ahhandl. 



nat. Ver. Bretnen, viii. p. 203 "(1882). 

 Zonog-astris monteiri, Heugl. Orti. N.O.-Afi: i. p. 624, note (1870). 

 Estrilda monteiri, Gray, Hcnul-l. B. ii. p. 53, no. 6735 (1870). 

 Hypargus monteiri, Sltelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 318 ; id. F. Z. S. 1888, 



p. 30. 

 Pytelia stictolsema, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, pp. 213, 305, 308. 



Adult male (type of species). General colom- above brown, the 

 wings like the back ; quills externally like the back ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts crimson ; tail-feathers black ; head and liind neck, 

 including the sides of the face, eai'-coverts, cheeks, and throat, dark 

 slaty gre}', with a triangular mark of crimson down the centre of 

 the latter; remainder of under surface of body chestnut-brown, 

 mottled all over with bar-like spots of white ; under tail-coverts 

 barred with chestnut-brown and white. Total length 4-7 inches, 

 culmen O'o, wing 2'2, tail 1'8, tarsiis 0*65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather duller in colour, 

 and wanting the crimson throat-patch, which is represented by a 

 median broad streak of white slightly tinged with red on the lower 

 throat. Total length 5 inches, culmen O'o5, wing 2'25, tail l*7o, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Young male. Differs from the adult in being more dingily 

 coloured and in not being spotted below. The throat is uniform 

 slaty grey without any sign of the crimson patch, and the fore neck, 

 breast, and sides of body are uniform tawny buff without any white 

 spots, and the under tail-coverts are slightly barred with white. 



Hah. N.E. and W. Africa ; Upper White Nile, about 5" N. lat. ; 

 and from Angola to the Loango Coast. 



a. d' ad. sk, Bembe, Angola. Monteiro Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



6, c. c? ? ad. sk. Landana, Congo, June (Petit). Shelley Coll. 



e?. J ad. sk. LeopoldvilleJ Upper Congo, F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Dec. 



e. S iniiu. sk. Kudm-ma, Equatorial Afi'ica, Shelley Coll. 



Nov. li {Emin Pasha). 



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