OniJtholoijy of the E(ji/pti(iii Soudan. 219 



44. Spermestes cucullatus Swains. 

 a. (J. Khor Gitti, 1.2.07. 



I only saw the Bronze-shouldered Manikin once, a single 

 bird which I shot at the Khor Gitti. It was associating 

 with a flight of Weaver-Finches [Pyromelana). 



45. Uroloncha cantaxs (Gm.). 



46. EsTRiLDA PHCENicoTis Swains. 



Both these birds were common from Meshra to Chak 

 Chak, the latter especially so. 



47. EsTRiLDA ciNEREA (Vieill.). 

 a. S- Chak Chak, 12.2.07. 



Large flocks of the Common Black-rumped Waxbill were 

 constantly met with from Meshra to Chak Chak. Mr. 

 Middleton has sent it to me from Bor. 



48. ESTRILDA PALUDICOLA Heugl, 



a. ^ . Khor Kobshura, 5. 3. 07. 



^- + • JJ ?J 3> 



c. ?. „ „ 6.3.07. 



Heuglin's Waxbill was common near the Jur River and in 

 the Khor Kobshum, south of Chak Chak. At the latter 

 place we camped close to a large rock-pool, where the bushes 

 round us were always alive with a chirping host of these 

 little Waxbills during the heat of the day. 



49. Lagonosticta brunneiceps Sharpe. 



I saw this Fire-Finch in the Bahr-el-Ghazal Province at 

 Meshra, Wau, and Chak Chak. 



50. Lagonosticta larvata Kiipp. 

 Lagonosticta nigricollis Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 321. 



By a slip of the pen, I think, Captain Shelley gave me 

 the name L. nigricollis as that of a little Finch which I shot 

 at Gallabat on April 15th, 1903. In his ' Birds of Africa' 

 (vol. ii. pt. i. p. 225) it is, however, identified, and correctly, 

 as Lagonosticta larvata, but the date is wrongly given as 

 March 13th, 1899, at which time I was in the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



