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42. GEANATINA. 403 



k, I. <S ; m- 2 ad. sk. Tati, Matabele-Land, Oct., W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



March (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



«• Ad. sk. Zambesi. Sir J. Kirk [P.]. 



o, p. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi. Livingstone Exped. 



q, >: d' 2 ad. sk. Mozambique. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



s. 2 ad. sk. Elephant Vley, Damara- Sharpe Coll. 



Laud, Aug. (C. J. An- 



dersson). 



t. 2 ad. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



Nov. (C. J. A.). 



42. GRANATINA* 



Range. Confined to South Africa. 



1. Granatina granatina. 



The Red and Blue Brasilian Finch, EdicarJs, Nat. Hist. B. iv. pi. 

 191(1751). 



Le Grenadin, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 216, pi. ix. fig. 3 (1760) ; Month. 

 Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 169, pi. vii. fig. 1 (1778) ; Vieill. Ois. Chant. 

 p. 40, pis. 17, 18 (1805). 



Friugilla granatina, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 318 (1766) ; Gm. Si/st. 

 Nat. i. p. 906 (1788) ; Vieill. N. Did. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 180 (18i7). 



Grenadin, de la cote d'Afrique, Daiibent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 109. fig. 3. 



Brasilian Finch, Lath. Gen. St/n. ii. pt. i. p. 316 (1783). 



Loxia granatina, IJaud. Traite, ii. p. 446 (1800). 



Estrelda granatina, Grai^, Gen. B. ii. p. 368 (1849) ; B}}. Consp. Av. 

 i. p. 4.58 (1850) ; Strickl. 8,- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 150 ; Hartl. 

 Orn. W.-Afr. p. 144 (1857); id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 258; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 199 (1867) ; Chapman, Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 402 

 (1868) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 51, no. 6706 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 256 ; Buckley, iiw, 1874, p. 382 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 107 ; 

 Sharpe in Gates' Matabele-Land, App. B, p. 321 (1881) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, IS8G, -p. 835. 



Uraeginthus granatinus, Cab. Mas. Hein. i. p. 171 (1850); Gurney 

 in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 180 (1872) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 353 (1881) ; Holub &,- von Peh. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 129 

 (1882) ; Shelky, Ibis, 1882, p. 365 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' » B. S. Afr. 

 pp. 474, 850 (1884). 



Mariposa granatina, Beichenb. Singv. p. 7, Taf. i. figs. 4, 5 (1861). 



./Egintha granatina, Buss, Stubenv. p. 100 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut-brown, the lower back 

 ashy ; scapulars like the back ; wing-coverts and quills ashj- brown, 

 narrowly edged with reddish brown ; upper tail-coverts deep metallic 

 cobalt ; tail-feathers black, with a bluish shade on the margins ; 

 head chestnut like the back ; base of forehead cobalt, forming a 

 narrow line which reaches above the eye ; lores dusky ; eyebrow, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of face beautiful lilac; base of cheeks, chin, 



* ' Granatinfe ' was the name proposed by Bonaparte for a section of the 

 genus Estrelda (Consp i. p. 458). It has been mentioned by several authors as 

 a genus Granatina, and for that reason I retain the name, but it has never been 

 described. 



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