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Me.vrn's incerta and pronounced it to be the same as his skins 

 from the Bahr-elGhazal. Therefore this race must in future be 

 known as. 



Lagonosticta rufopicta lateritia Heugl. 



Synonyni. — L. r. incerta Mearns. 



Distingiiishing characters (L. c. sjtpra). 



Range. — Bahr-el-Ghazal, Djur and Bongo districts of white 

 Nile to Gondokoro. 



{L. r. rufopicta is a conimon bird around the bungalow near 

 Lagos; it feeds on grass seeds. — W. P. L.) 



Sporaeginthus subflavus subflavus. 



Friiigilla subflava Vieill, Nouv. Dict., XXX, 1819, p. 575. — 

 Type localitv : Sénégal. 



■ The Northern Zébra- Waxbill was obtained in Southern Nigeria 

 bv Robin Kemp at Agoulerie in June and July. 



From Northern Nigeria vve hâve examples from Shonga (Forbes) 

 and from Keth in August (Alexander). 



Range. — The tvpical species has a wide range across Africa 

 extending, with certain interruptions, from the St. Louis River in 

 Sénégal to the Mfumbiro volcanoes near Ruwenzori and thence to 

 Abyssinia. 



We hâve spécimens in the British Muséum from Sénégal, Por- 

 tuguese Guinea, Sierra Leone, Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, 

 French Equatorial Africa (Shari river); Anglo-Egvptian Sudan 

 (Lado, Zeraf river and White Nile); x'Vbyssinia (Sati) ; Eastern 

 Belgian Congo. 



It is represented in South and East Africa bv a form which is 

 usually considered a distinct species. 



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