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greyish centre to the crown is obsolete in two specimens, 

 and only a faint spot is to be seen on one of the males. 



[All my specimens of this little Bunting were shot on 

 stumps, brush, &c. in the midst of cultivated ground. — ■ 

 G. L. B.] 



Vidua serena. 



Vidua strena (Linn.) ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 217 

 (1904). 



Vidua principalis (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B.Brit. Miis. xiii. 

 p. 203 (1890). 



a, b. (^ ad. et imm. Efulen, June and July. 



No. 1922. c? juv. „ Aug. 25, 1906. 



No. 1623. c? juv. River Ja, March 28, 1906. 



No. 1707. ? ad. „ June 1, 1906. 



Pyromelana flammiceps. 



Pyromelanaflamtniceps {Swains.); Sharpe,Cat. B.Brit.Mus. 

 xiii. p. 228 (1890); Reichenow,Vog. Af rikas, iii. p. 118(1904). 



No. 4. ? ad. River Ja, Jan. 1903. 



Nos. 316, 1143, 1153, 1298, 1314, 1315, 1346. S ? ad. et 

 juv. River Ja, December and January. 



Nos. 1819, 1820, 1825, 1829, 1877. c? ? ad. et juv. 

 River Ja, June to August 1896. 



Nos. 1979. ? ; 1981, 2014. ^ ad. Bitje, River Ja, October 

 1906. 



ESTRELDA OCCIDENTALIS. 



Estrelda occidentalis Jard. & Fraser, Contr. Orn. 1851, 

 p. 156 (Fernando Po). 



Estrilda rubriventris Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 393 

 (1890). 



Estrilda astrild occidentalis Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. 

 p. 180 (1904). 



Nos. 255, 463, 572, 1J05, 1529, 1659. S ? ad. River Ja, 

 Dec. 14, 1903, to April 1906. 



Nos. 2120, 2288. ? ; 2482. S ad. Bitje, River Ja, December, 

 February, April. 



Estrilda atricapilla. 



Estrilda atricapilla Verr. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, xiii. 

 p. 399 (1890); Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 188 (1904). 



