43. SP0R0PIPE8. 



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43. SPOROPIPES. 



Type. 

 S. squamifrons. 



Sporopipes, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. viii. p. 332 (18i7). 

 Pholidocoma, Reichenb. Singv. p. 49, pi. xix. figs. 



169-170 (1861) S. frontalis. 



Tail of Sporopipes squamifrons. 

 Bauge. Confined to Africa. 



Keg to the Sjjeeies. 



a. Hind neck ashy brown like the hack ; -wiiig- 



coverts black, conspicuously edged with white ; 

 lores, chin, and a broad line down the sides of 

 the throat black squamifrons, p. 407. 



b. Hind neck rufous ; wing-coverts brown, edged 



with whity brown ; lores and sides of face ashy 

 brown : a narrow malar streak of black, dotted 

 with white frontalis, p. 409. 



1. Sporopipes squamifrons. 



Estrelda squamifrons. Smith, Rep. Exped. Centr. Afr. p. 49 (1836) ; 



Gray, Gen. B.'n. p. 368 (1869) ; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 199 (1867) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 257, 1880, p. 263. 

 Fringilla lepidopterus, Licht. Verz. Vog. Kajfernl. p. 15 (1842). 

 Amadina squamifrons, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 95 (1844) ; 



Chapin. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. p. 402 (1868). 

 Euplectes lepidopterus, Hartl. Syst. Verz. Bremen, 1844, p. 69. 

 Sporopipes lepidopterus, Cab. Arch.f. Nattirq. 1847, p. 332; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 179 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 179 (1850) ; 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 49 (1850); Reichenb. Singv. p. 49, pi. xix. 



figs. 167, 168 (1861) ; Mont. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 95; Heugl. J.f. O. 



1867, p. 371 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 540 (1870), iv. p. cxxix 



(1871). 

 rioceus lepidopterus, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 45, no. 6632 (1870). 

 Philffiterus squaniifroms, StricM. &)• Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 150. 

 Sporopipes squamifrons, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 61 (1871) ; Gurtiey 



