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juv. 

 y. 2 ad. sk. 



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z, a'. (S ad. et juv. 



sk. 



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Zambesi River. 

 Mozambique. 

 Ondonga, Nov. 28 (C. /. 



Ovaquenyama, Damara Laud, 

 May 20 (C. J. Andersson). 



Katenbella, Eenguela {J. 

 Sala). 



Ujiji, Upper Congo, Aug. 



Pangani, E. Africa {Sir J. 

 Kirk). 



Lamu {Sir J. Kirk). 



Slioa {Sir W. C. Harris). 



Dongolo, Tigre, Maj' 18. 



Keren, Bogos Land {Esler). 



Keren {Esler). 

 Bejook, July 15 {W. Jesse). 

 Bejook, July 15 ( W. Jesse). 

 Maragaz, July 27 ( W. Jesse). 

 Maragaz, July 27 ( W. Jesse). 

 Soudan {Capt. Vei'ner). 

 Kibiro, Equatorial Africa, 

 Oct. 7. 



Sir J. Kirk [P.]. 

 Dr. Gueinzius [0.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Slaarpe Coll. 



Sharps Coll. 



F. Bobndorff [C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 India Museum, 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shellev Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley CoU. 

 Emin Pasha. 



7. Lagonosticta rufopicta. 



Estrilda rufopicta, Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 27 ; Allen S,- Thorns. E.vp. 



Niger, ii. p. 501 (1848) ; Eraser, Zool. T,/p. pi. 51 (1849) ; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 143 (1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 52, no. 



G715 (1870) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 306 ; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, 



p. 517. 

 Estrelda rufopectus, G7-ai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 368 (1849). 

 Lagouosticta (Estrelda) lateritia, Heiujl. J.f. O. 1864, p. 251. 

 Estrelda lateritia, Hcugl. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 15 ; Gray, Hand-l. E. ii. 



p. 52, no. 6720 (1870). 

 Pytelia rufopicta, Einscli, J.f. O. 1869, p. 336. 

 Lagonosticta rufopicta, Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 615 (1870); 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 192; V<Z. Cat. Afr. B. p. 66 (1871) ; Shelley S^ 



Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 70; Pelz. 



Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxi. p. 152 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, 



p. 555; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 322. 

 Astrilda rufopicta, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 103 



(1881). 

 Estrelda rubropicta, Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 532. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the upper tail-coverts 

 deep pink ; wing-coverts brown like the back : quills dark brown, 

 externally lighter brown like the back ; tail-feathers brown, washed 

 with dark pink towards the base of the outer web ; crown of head 

 brown like the back ; base of forehead, lores, eyebrow, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and breast rosy pink, becoming paler on 

 the abdomen, flanks, and thighs, which are pale brown washed with 

 rosy pink ; under tail-covcrts ochi'eous white, the long ones brown 



