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18. LAOONOSTICTA. 285 



Habropyg-a incana, Beichenb. Singv. p. 12 (1861). 



Fringilla cserulescens {nee VieUL), Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc 



xviii. p. 326 (1867). 

 Pytelia incana, Ln>/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 197 (1867); Finsch <§• Bartl. 



Tog. Ostafr. p. 446 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above delicate blue-grey, the lower 

 back and rump and upper tail-coverts crimson ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; quills dusky, externally like the back, the primaries 

 edged with hoary grey; tail-feathers dusky blackish; crown of 

 head like the back, with a narrow black line along the extreme 

 base of the forehead ; through the eye a narrow black streak ; base 

 ot chin black ; lores, sides of face, and throat light pearly grev, 

 deepening on the lower breast and abdomen, as well as the sides of 

 body and flanks; thighs ashy grey; under tail-coverts dusky 

 blackish ; under wmg-coverts white, those near the edge of the wino- 

 ashy; axillaries like the breast; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge : " billgrey ; feet black; iris red" {T. L. Ayres). Total 

 length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-95, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-25 inches 

 culmen 0-35, wing 1-9, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6. 



Hab. South-eastern Africa from Mozambique to Natal. 



a b, c Ad. sk. Durban, Natal ( Gordge). Shelley Coll. 



d, e. 6 ad. sk. Durban, July, Oct. {T. L. Shelley Coll 



Ayres). 



f. $ ad. sk. Pinetown, July (T. L. Aijres). Shelley Coll. 



Subsp. a. Lagonosticta perreini, 



Fringilla perreini, VleiU. N. Diet. dHist. Nat. xii. p. 179 (1817) 



^f ■t^M'n"n«-'nf''''-^^?-^- "• P- ^^'^ (1^49) '• ^P- ^onsp. A,. 

 Hand-l.B.n. p. 50, no 6690 (1870); Sharpe ^ Border jS 

 amfsSS;;:ib.^^^^ ■' '-^^' Or2 Angola/,. 359 



lyteha perreini, Fimeh ^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr: l'. ~U7 , note (1870). 



bl«fS Z^'' if """f^' *° ^V "''"""' ^"* ^^^^ ^^^ l°^er abdomen 

 blackish as well as the under tail-coverts. Total length 4 inches 

 culmen 0-4, wing 1-95, tail DS, tarsus 0-6. ' 



Adult female Similar to the male. Total length 4-1 inches 

 culmen 0-35, wmg 1-9, tail l-6o, tarsus 0-55. ' 



Hah. Congo region. 



?f!?0^nr] 1- Y^'^J'''^^ ^<^^S0 {Dr. Luean). Shelley Coll. 

 6, c. cJ ? ad. sk. Laudaua (Z. Pe^tY). Shelley Coll. 



