284 PLOCEIDiE. 



of both mandibles and along the tomium of the upper one. Total 

 length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-43, wing 1-9, tail 1-4, tarsus O'S. 



Adult female. Everywhere duller and paler brown than the male ; 

 eyebrow, sides of face, and under surface of body salmon-red, 

 ochrcous on the abdomen and blackish on the under tail-coverts ; 

 sides of body with distinct white spots. 



Jlcib. Lower Congo llegion. 



a, 6. cJ $ ad. sk. Landana, Feb. (L. Petit). Shelley Coll. 



17. Lagonosticta csBrulescens. 



Le Beugrtli giis-bleu, T'ieill. Ois. Chant, p. 27, pi. 8 (1805). 

 Fringilla cperule.?cens, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 17(j 



(1817) ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 986 (1823), 

 Estrelda cserulesceus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 195 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849); Bp. Comp.'Av. i. p. 460 (1850) ; Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 142 (1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 52, no. 0718 



(1870) ; SJielley, Ibis, 1886, p. 328. 

 Lagonusticta cserulescens. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 172, note (1850). 

 Habropvga caerulesceus, Reichenb. Siiu/v. p. 12, pi. 2. figs. 14, 15 



(1801); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 65 (1871). 

 Habropysra liaibriata, Reiclienb. Singv. pp. 12, 49, pi. 18. figs. 105, 



166 (l'861) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 52, no. 6723 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above and below pearly grey ; the lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts bright crimson ; centre tail- 

 feathers dull crimson, the remainder black, externally dull crimson ; 

 quills dusky, externall)- hoary grey ; lores blackish ; face and throat 

 a little paler grey than the rest of the upper parts ; the fore neck 

 and breast dusky grey, gradually darkening towards the abdomen 

 which is blackish ; under tail-coverts crimson ; under wing-coverts 

 hoary whitish ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web. 

 Total length 3-35 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 19, tail 1"4, tarsus 

 0-55. 



Hah. West Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Seuegambia. Governor Rendall [C.]. 



h, c. Ad. sk. Seuegambia. Shelley Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Seuegambia. Sharpe Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. S. Louis, Senegal Tweeddale Coll. 



(Z. Laglaize). 



18. Lagonosticta incana*. 



Estrelda incana, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fiirhandl. Stoekh. 1850, 

 p. 98 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 51, no. 0709 (1870) ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1875, p. 80 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 470 (1884) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1886, p. 329. 

 Habropyga natalensis. Cab, Mus. Hein. i. p. 170 (1850) ; Reichenb. 

 Sinyv. p. 12 (1861). 

 • Estrelda caBrulescens (pt.), Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1854). 



* Dr. Reichenow separates the specimens from Mozambique in the Berlin 

 Museum as Habropyga foliogastra (J. f. 0. 1886, p. 121). 



