6 SMITIISOXIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL.56' 



exce])tinij;- the shoulcler-patch, which has more hlack mixed with the 



gray. 



Measurements of Pseudonigrita arnaudi kapitcnsis. — Adult male 

 (type specimen) : Wing. 68 mm. ; tail, 41 ; culmen (chord). 14: tar- 

 sus, 18. Adult female (average of two topotypes) : AMng. 65 ; tail. 

 40; culmen (chord). 14: tarsus, t8. 



Measurements of Pseudonii:;rita arnaudi arnaudi ( from Nimule, 

 Lokko Zegga. and Ledgus. on the Upper Nile).— Adult male (aver- 

 age of four): Wing. 62.5; tail. 37.2: culmen (chord), 13; tarsus, 

 17. 1. Adult female (average of five) : Wing. 60.9; tail, 35.4; cul- 

 men (chord), 12.3; tarsus, 16.6. 



Description of young (female; Cat. No. 213774, U. S. N. M. ; 

 killed at the same shot with the type). — Differs from the adult in 

 having the crown hair brown like the upper side of the neck and 

 upper back, conspicuously darker than rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 lower back and scapulars blackish drab : shoulder-patch nearly black ; 

 black markings of wings and tail as in adults, but with narrow drab- 

 gray tips to the wing-quills ; secondaries edged externally with pale 

 russet; bill dark brown above, flesh color on basal two-thirds of 

 mandible, instead of black throughout ; feet fleshy brown instead of 

 light yellowish brown. 



Material. — Three adults and one young from Juja Farm and 

 Kamiti. British East Africa. 



LAGONOSTICTA INCERTA, new species 



Vinous Fire-finch 



Type-Specimen.— Adult male. Cat. No. 217311, U. S. N. M. 

 Collected at Gondokoro, on the I'.ahr el Jebel, Uganda, Africa, Feb- 

 ruary 25, 1910, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 18805. 



Description of type. — Crown, upper side of neck, back, and wings 

 olive-brown perceptibly tinged with red ; forehead in front of eyes, 

 and entire side of head, including supraorbital stripe, and upper 

 tail-coverts burnt carmine ; tail black, bordered with carmine on 

 outer webs of feathers at base ; under wing-coverts pale buft'y gray ; 

 under side of wing-quills dusky grayish ; chin, throat, and breast 

 vinaceous. fading to smoke gray on abdomen and grayish white on 

 under tail-coverts ; breast quite thickly spotted with white, tending 

 to form bars ; bill red, striped with black above, below, and along 

 lower edge of maxilla ; feet and claws brown. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 46 mm.: tail. 42: culmen (chord), 

 TO. 6 : tarsus. 13.5. 



