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43. spoHoPiPES. 409 



2. Sporopipes frontalis. 



Loxia frontalis, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 445 (1800). 



Le S(5n^gali a front pointelle, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 39, pi. 16 (1805). 



Fringilla frontalis, Vieill. N. Diet. xii. p. 181 (1817) ; Heiujl. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 40 (1850). 

 Amadina frontalis, ii(7/>7J. Neue Wirb. p. 101 (1835-40) ; zrf. Syd. 



Uebers. p. 77 (1845). 

 Estrelda frontalis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 368 (1840). 

 Sporopipes frontalis, Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 444 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 



Th. i. p. 179 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 1.31 (1857) ; id.J.f. O. 



1861, p. 176; Heiiyl. J.f. O. 1862, p. 27; Anti7i. Cat. deserr. Ucc. 



p. 67 (1864); HeiujL Orn. N.O.-Afr. \. p. 539 (1870), iv. App. 



p. cxxviii (1871); Antin. 4' SalcadI Viayy. Boqns, p. 118 (1873); 



Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 102 (1881); Pelz. Verh. 



z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxxi. p. 151 (1881) ; Sc/ialojv, J.f. 0. 1883, p. 363 ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 3. 

 Ploceus frontalis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 45, no. 6631 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, scapulars and 

 ■wing-coverts like the back, with whitj -brown edges ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with lighter brown, 

 the inner secondaries margined with whity brown ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, edged with whity brown ; forehead black, with small 

 white tips to the feathers, producing a scaly appearance : eyebrow, 

 lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts pale ashy brown ; hinder crown 

 rufous like the hind neck and sides of neck ; on the fore part of the 

 cheeks a streak of black, dotted with white spots ; throat white ; 

 fore neck and breast light ashy brown ; abdomen white ; sides of 

 body and flanks isabelline ; thighs and under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts pale ashy with whitish edges ; quills below 

 dusky, isabelline along the inner edge : " bill and feet pale yellowish 

 horn-colour ; iris dusky brown " ( Von Heuglin). Total length 4-9 

 inches, culmcn O'o. wing 2-75, tail 1-75, tarsus 0'75. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 4' 7 

 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-5, tail 1-7, tarsus 0"7. 



Young male. Similar to the adults, but duller in colour, the pale 

 edges on the wings and tail more rufescent ; the black of the fore- 

 head and cheek-stripe uniform, without any white dots: "bill 

 fleshy horn-colour ; feet greyish ; iris dusky " (Eniin Pasha). 



Hah. Senegambia to N.E. Africa and south to Equatorial Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Dr. Riippell [C,]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Bogos-Land (Esler). Shelley Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Senaar (Dr. Kotschy). Sharpe Coll. 



e. (S juv. sk. Lado, Equatorial Africa, Feb. 4 Shelley Coll, 



(Emin Pasha), 

 .f, 0- 6 2 ad. sk. Redjaf, .lune, .July {Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



