402 rLocEiD^ 



V, u\ S i ■''• ? ^•^' sk. Mombasa. 

 y, z. 5 ad. sk. 



a'. 2 ad. sk. 

 b'. 2 ad. sk. 

 c'. c? ad. sk. 

 d'. Ad. sk. 



Rev. A. F. Buxton 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Mombasa, July, Aug. 



(Dr. Hildebrandt). 

 Dar-es-Salaam (-SV;- J. Shelley Coll. 



Kirk). 

 Rovuma River {J. Thorn- Shelley Coll. 



son). 

 Kassong-o, Upper Congo, F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



June. 

 Congo. Commander Sperling 



[P.]. 



12. Estrilda angolensis. 



The Blue-bellyed Finch, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iii. pi. 131 (1750). 



Friugilla angolensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 328 (1766). 



Loxia cyanogastra, Baud. Traite, ii. p. 436 (1800). 



Estrelda angolensis, Bp. Consp. Ai\ i. p. 458 (1850) ; S/iellei/, Ibis, 



1886, p. 336 (pt.). 

 Estrilda bengala (nee Linn.), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 199, pt. (1867) : 



Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 294. 

 Mariposa cyanogastra, Gurney iyi Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 179 



(1872). 

 Estrilda cyanogastra, Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 382 ; Barratt, Ibis, 



1876, p. 207 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 107 ; Sharpe in Oates' Mata- 



bek-Land, App. JB, p. 321 (1881). 

 Urseginthus phcenicotis {nee Linn.), Bocage, Orn. Am/ola, p. 354 



(1881); Butler, Feilden, ^ Beid, Zoologist, 1882, p. 300 ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 355. 

 Mariposa phoenicotis (wee Linn.), Holub (§• von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 



Siidafr. p. 129 (1882). 

 Uraeginthus cyanogaster, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 473, 



850 (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to E. lihoenicotis, but wanting the red ear- 

 patch, so that it resembles the female of that species more than the 

 male : " bill lilac, blackish at the tip ; tarsi and feet pale ; iris red- 

 dish hazel" {T. Ayres); "iris cherry-colour" {C. J. Anderssnn) ; 

 " iris orange-red " {T. E. Buclley). Total length 4-9 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 3-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-05, tail 1*8, tarsus 0-6. 



If ah. South-eastern Africa to the Zambesi, and apparently to 

 Mozambique on the east, and to Damara-Land on the west. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. (S ad. sk. 



c. d. Ad. sk. 

 e-g. (S 2 a.d. sk. 

 h. c? ad. sk. 



t. $ ad. sk. 



Natal. 



Weenen, March 19, 1878 



( T. Arnold). 

 Transvaal (7'. Ayres). 

 Rustenberg. 

 Swaziland, July 15, 1876 



{T. E. Buckley). 

 Matabele-Land, Sept. 29, 



1873 {T. E. Buckley). 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley CoU. 



