— 3'4 — 



Range. — The range of P. Iiypogrammica seenis to be Gold 

 Coast, Togoland, Southern and Northern Nigeria, French Eqiia- 

 torial Africa (Shari and Bamingui rivers). 



Lagonosticta rufopicta rufopicta- 



Esti'ilda rufopicta Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1843, P- ^7- — 

 Tvpe localitv : Gold Coast. 



Mr LowE shot three examples of the Bar-breasted Fire-finch at 

 Iju near Lagos in Januarv 1920. Other places in Southern Nigeria 

 from which the bird has been obtained are Agoulerie in June and 

 July (R. Kemp); Abo in August (Forbes), and Abutschi (Forbes). 

 In Nothern Nigeria Boyd Alexander obtained a spécimen at 

 Loko on the Benue River in April, and we hâve also a spécimen 

 from the « River Niger » collected by Mrs Heywood. 



Rans:e. — The séries in the British Muséum shows that the 



tvpical species ranges from the Gambia to S. Nigeria. We hâve 



examples from the Gambia, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Southern 



and Northern Nigeria and French Equatorial i\frica (Bamingui 



River). 



Note. — The birds from the Bahr-el-Ghazal hâve been dealt 

 with in Ibis, 1920, p. 849 by Messrs Sclater and Praed who named 

 their spécimens from Lado and Kenisa Lagonosticta rtifopicta 

 incerta Mearns (Smithsonian Mise. Coll., LVI, 1909, n° 14, p. 6 : 

 Gondokoro) but both Mearns, Sci.ater and Praed overlooked 

 the fact that Heuglin had alreadv described this race under the 

 name : 



iMgonosticta lateritia (not laterita as Sheli.ey spells it^ Bds. ot 

 Afr., IV, p. 262). [lAigonosticta ( Ëstrelda) lateritia Heuglin, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1864, p. 251 : Djur, Bongo and Ko.sanga (Bahr- 

 el-Ghazal)]. 



Heuglin mentions the broader white spots on the beast which 

 in addition to the greyer backs and bellies, is clearly shown in the 

 Sudanese spécimens before me. Sclater examined the type of 



