18. LAGONOSTICTA. 



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With whitish edges ; under wing-coverts ochreous ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy fulvous along the inner edge ; on the fore neck and 

 chest some tmy white spots or bars : " bill violet-red, the culmen 

 and genys black ; bare eyelids yellow ; iris pale dusky brown • feet 

 dusky reddish " {Heuglin). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-35 

 wing 1-95, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-55. 



_ Hah. West Africa froi Sierra Leone to the Gold Coast and JN^iger 

 districts, occurring also in Equatorial Africa and the Upper Nile. 



a. S ad. sk. 

 h. cS ad. sk. 



c. S ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. cj" ad. sk. 



f-i iS ad. sk. 



Jv, I. cf ad. sk. 



m, n. (S ad. sk. 

 0. c? ad. sk. 

 p. 2 ad. sk. 



q. S ad. sk. 



West Africa. 



Sierra Leone {Dr. Clark). 



Sierra Leone. 



Asbantee. 



Cape Coast Castle. 



Cape Coast Castle, March 



[G. E. S.). 

 Cape Coast Castle, March 



(T. E. Buckley). 

 River Volta {H. T. Ussker). 

 River Niger. 

 Abo, River Niger, August 



(W.J.F.). 

 Abutchi, River Niger (W. 



A. F.). 



8. Lagonosticta nitidula. 



Purchased. 

 Sbarpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Gould Coll. 

 L. Fraser [C.]. 

 (Type of species.) 

 SheUey CoU. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe CoU. 



Mrs. Heywood [P.]. 



Forbes CoU. 



Forbes CoU. 



Lagonosticta nitidula, Hartl. Bull. Mus. Boy. cVHist. Nat Belq iv 

 p. 145, pi. iv. figs. 1, 2 (1886) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 46. ' ' " 



Adult male. Above pale olivaceous dusky ; eyebrows very 

 narrowly joined in front, sides of head and throat pale vinaceous 

 red ; breast vinous red, thickly marked with minute rounded spots 

 of white ; abdomen more ashy, becoming gradually paler ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform"' with the back : tail uniform' dusky 

 brown ; quUls dusky ; under wing-coverts ochreous white ; bill 

 orange-reddish, the ridge of the bill darker. Total length 375 

 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-05, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-65. {Hartlauh.) 



Toung. Above uniform pale dusky; underneath paler, the 

 abdomen fulvescent ; throat conspicuously varied with reddish. 

 {Harilauh.) 



Hah. Lake Tanganyika. 



9. Lagonosticta rhodopsis. 



Estrelda rhodopsis, Hemjl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 166 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 50, no. 6701 (1870). 

 Rhodopyga rhodopsis, Heugl. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 13, pi. i. fig. 3 ; id. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. cxxxvii (1871). 

 Habropyga rhodopsis, Seuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 010, pi. x'lx. 



fig. c (1870). 

 Lagonosticta rhodopsis, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 325. 



Adult male. Entirely dull dusky ashy ; paler underneath ; middle 



