290 PLOCEIDiE. 



a. Ad. St. West Africa. A. Wieuer,Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. St. West Africa. Mr. J. Baker. 



c. Ad. St. West Africa. J. Gould, Esq. 



d. Imm. sk. West Africa. Sliarpe Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. West Africa. Eiocoiir Coll. 

 /. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Sharpe Coll. 

 (/. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



h. Imm. sk. Ailat, Bogos-Land. Mr. Eslev [C.J. 



i Ad. sk. Ailat, Bogos-Land (Esler). Sharpe Coll. 



k, I, m. Ad. et Ailat, Bogos-Land {Esler). Shelley Coll. 



jiiv. sk. 

 n. (S ad. sk. Daimbi, Shoa, May 27 Shelley Coll. 



(O. Antinori). 

 0. <S ad. sk. Redjaf, Equatorial Africa, Emiii Pasha [P.]. 



Dec. 17. 



2. Amadina marginalis. 



Adult. Similar to A. fasciata, but having a throat-band of deeper 

 crimson, a generally darker rufous coloration, and all the feathers 

 of the breast and flanks edged, not subterminally harred, with black. 

 Total length 4-2 inches, culmeu 0-4, wing 2-5, tail 1-5, tarsus 0-6. 



Ilab. West Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. L Pulham, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. West Africa. Sir A. Smith. 



b. Amadina erythrocephala. 



The Sparrow of Paradise, EJiimrds, Nat. Hist. B. iv. pi. 180 (1751). 



Le Cardinal d' Angola, Bri&s. Orn. vi. Siippl. p. 78 (1760). 



Loxia erythrocephala, Z/w«. Syst. Nat. i. p. 301 (1766); Gm. Syd. 

 Nat. i. p. 849 (1788) ; Smith, Id. Zool. S. Afr. B. pi. 69 (1841). 



Gros-bec du Bresil, Dauhcnt. PL Enl, iv, pi. 309. tig. 1. 



Le Grivelin, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 401, pi. xxx. fig. 2 (1775) ; 

 Vieill Ois. Chant, p. 80, pi. 49 (1805). 



Brasiban Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 122 (1783). 



Paradise Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 122 (1783). 



Loxia brasiliana, Bodd. Tahl. PI. Enl. p. 19 (1783) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. 

 i. p. 848 (1788). 



Coccothraustes erythrocephala, Vieill. X. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii, 

 p. 530 (1817). ' 



Loxia maculosa, Burch. Trav. S. Afr. ii. p. 269 (1824). 



Friugilla reticulata, Voigt, Cuv. Thierreich, p. 582 (1831). 



Amadina erythrocephala. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849) ; Bp, 

 Consp.Av. i. p. 454 (1850); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 146 (18-57); 

 Reichenb. Singv. p. 35, Taf. xii. figs. 105-107 (1861); Gurney, 

 P. Z. S. 1864, p. 7 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 200 (1867) ; Chapman, 

 Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 402 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 53, 

 no. 6742 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 65 (1871) ; Gzirnei/, in 

 Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 174 (1872) ; T. Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 103 ; 

 Bocayv, Orn. Angola, p. 352 (1881) ; Sharpe in OateS Matabele- 

 Land, App. B, p". 320 (1881) ; Hohib Sf von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siid- 

 afr. p. 131 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 407, 849 

 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 313; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 332. 

 Sporothlastes erythrocephala, Gab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 173 (1850) ; 

 Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. .597, App. p. cxxxv (1871). 



