Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 337 



a, 2 . July^ Bejook. b, ? . June, Sobat. c. July, Swazi. 

 d. September^ Matabele {Shelley Mus.). 



13. Ortygospiza. 



Type. 

 1850. Ortijgospiza, Sundev. CEfv. at" Vet.-Ak. 



Forh. Stockli. 1850, p. 98 O. pohjzona. 



I have not been able to examine a sufficient number of 

 good specimens from N.E. Africa, and suspect that the two 

 N.E. -African forms will be found to differ from the S.- 

 African bird ; if so, the species with the white round the eye 

 will stand as Ortygospiza fuscocrissa, Heugl., for Fringilla 

 multizona is nothing- but an error in Des Murs's quotation 

 from Temminck. The white circle round the eye is, how- 

 ever, no reliable character. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Chin white and a white band round the eye 70. O. polyzona. 



h. With no white on the liead 71. O. atricullis. 



70. Ortygospiza polyzona. 



Fringilla polyzona, Temm. PI. Col. 1823, pi. 221. fig. 3. 



l! " Fringilla multizona, Temm." (error), Des Murs, in Le- 

 febvre's Voy. Abyss. 1840-45, p. 117. 



'j! Estrelda polyzona, Des Murs, tom. cit. p. 173. 



1 Amadina polyzona, RUpp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 77. 



Ortygospiza polyzona, Sundev. QEfv. af Vet.-Ak. Forh. 

 Stockh. 1850, p. 98. 



? Ortygospiza fuscocrissa, Hartl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 18, 

 Dembea, Tigrd. 



? Ortygospiza atricollis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871, 

 p. 598 (part.). 



Hab. (N.E. ?) S. and W. Afr. In Abyssinia and Shoa 

 this, or probably a closely allied species, is found. It has 

 not been recorded from E. Africa, and in S. and W. Africa 

 it has only been mentioned from Matabele, Transvaal, Natal, 

 and Angola. 



a, ? . June. b, ? . October, Newcastle, c, ? . July, 

 Pinetown, Natal {Shelley Mus.). In specimen e there is no 



