28. T-DNTOPT&IA. 311 



/ Ad. sk. Mamboio, E. Africa (Sir J. Shelley Coll. 



Kirh). 

 ■'i '^ "j""; •*''■ Sedhiou, Senegambia. M. A. Marche TO 1 



/'. dad. sk. Abeokuta. F. Nicholson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



5. Hypochaera nigerrima. 



Hypochffii-a nigeiTima, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 1.33 ; id. Cat. Afr. 



rS. p. 64 (18/1). •' 



Hypochsera uiteus {nee Gm.), Bocmje, Orn. Angola, p. 348 (1877-81) 

 liypochajra ultramarina, Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 308. 



Adiilt (type of species). Similar to If. fuyierea, and with the 

 same brown wmgs, but with the plumage deep purpHsh black above 

 and below. Total length 4-4 inches, culmeu 4-4, wing 2-6 tail 1-4 

 tarsus O-oo. o i ■, 



Hah. From Angola to the Uj^per Congo Region and south to the 

 Zambesi. 



«. d ad. sk. Galungo-alto, Angola (Hamil- Sharpe CoU. (Tj^je 



, , , , '^ ^^'^)- ^^ of species.) 



7 , ■ I , Kassougo, Upper Congo, June. F. BohudorftTC.l. 



c, d. S ad. sk. Zambesi [Sir J. Kirl). Li.4ugstone Expedi- 



tion. 



28. TJENIOPYGIA. 



Taeniopygia, Reichenb. Siwjv. p. 26 (18(U) T. eaJtanotis. 



Range. Australia and the Timor group of islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a Throat gi-ey, with distinct narrow cross lines of 



black. castanotis, p. 311. 



6. Ihroat uniform grey, the cross lines obsolete, so 



that the throat appears practically unbarred .... insularis, p. 312. 



1. Taeniopygia castanotis. 

 Bengali mouchete, Vieill. Ois. Chcmf. pi. 3 (1805) 

 Amadina castanotis Goidd, P. Z. S 1835, p. 105 ; id. B. Atcsfr. 

 f:. '\J'\% {IS48); Gra;/, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849) ; Reichenh. 



^ (IbbO) ; Bujyles, Orn. Austr. pi. 49. fig. 4 (1870) 

 steganopleiua castanotis. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 172 (1850) 

 ■|porothlastes castanotis, Bj). Consp. i, p. 455 (1850) 

 rffimopygia castanotis, Reichenb. Sinf/v. p. 26, Taf viii. fi<^s. 07-69 

 ^ ( lbb2) ; Gould, Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 419 (1865). ° 



^strelda (Tffiniopygia) castanotis, Rammy, Proc. Linn Soc Y -S' W 



11. p. 18/ (1878) ; id. Tab. List Aii.,fr. B. p. 10 (1888) '^ ' ' ' 

 istrelda castanotis. Ramsai/, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S W (o^ \ 



p. 1091 (1887), ii. p. 168 (1888). ' ' ^~' 



