272 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds collected 



Lagonosticta rhodoparia Heugl. 



Lagonosticta rhodopareia Reich, iii. p. 200 (1904) ; Shelley, 

 iv. p. 250, pi. xxxiv. fig. 1 (1905). 



Lagonosiicta ugandce Salvad. Boll. Mus. Torino, xxi. 

 no. 542, p. 2(1906). 



Lagonosticta rubricata hildebrandti, p. 167, & Z. r. hcemato- 

 cephala, p. 168, Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. xv. (1907). 



Nos. 5027, 5028, 5053. a-c. S • Mfumbiro Volcanoes, 

 5000 ft., 17th Nov. 



Nos. 5057, 5062, 5063, 5064, 5065, 5069, 5071, 5072. 

 d-l. S ? • Lake Kivu, 4900 ft., 30th Nov. to 4th Dec. 



Iris dark hazel ; bill black, base of lower mandible bluish 

 grey ; feet very dark grey. 



The fine series of this Fire-Finch in the present collection, 

 too-ether with the series in the British Museum and three 

 specimens procured by the Ruwenzori Expedition, have greatly 

 assisted me in investigating the conclusions arrived at by 

 Prof. Oscar Neumann [c/. Orn. Monatsb. xv. pp. 167-168 

 (1907)]. He states that he has examined the type of 

 L. rhodoparia Heugl., which was obtained at Keren, in 

 Bogosland, at an elevation of from 4000 to 5000 ft., and 

 that, in his opinion, it is perfectly distinct from the allied 

 forms found in East Africa and in Nyasaland which have 

 hitherto been included under that name by Dr. Sharpe and 

 other African ornithologists. 



L. rhodoparia Heiigl. from Bogosland is said to difi'er 

 from the East-African birds in having the top of the head 

 brownish-grey without any wash of red ; but an adult male 

 and female from the Gessima River, Likipia, B. E. Africa, 

 collected in January and in somewhat worn plumage, seem 

 to agree very closely with Heuglin^s description, and have 

 the top of the head brown, with scarcely a trace of red edges 



to the feathers, while the bright crimson feathers at the base 



of the bill and above the eyes form a marked contrast to 



the crown. 



Prof. Neumann has named the East- African bird L. rubri- 

 cata hildebrandti, and his type specimen being a male from 



Ukaniba, B. E. Africa, should belong to the same form 



