SPERMOSPIZA GUTTATA 295 



5-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-9. 3 , 15. 6. 01. Efulen 

 (G. L. Bates). 



Adult female. Similar to that of S. liconatina, from which it diifers in 

 the absence of red on the front of the crown ; in the red of the upper tail- 

 coverts and sides of the head being of the same glossy bright crimson as the 

 throat; tail-feathers slightly edged with dull crimson. "Iris red; eyelids 

 white ; bill dark metallic blue, with red edges ; feet black, with the soles 

 yellow " (Reichenow). 



The Gaboon Blue-l)illecl Weaver range.? from Camaroons to 

 the Congo. 



According to Dr. Reichenow the species is abundant in 

 Camaroons. Near the coast, at Bibundi, Mr. Sjostedt met 

 with it singly or in pairs amongst the thick grass interspersed 

 witli bushes and stunted trees, on the summits of which it 

 would perch, but never saw it frequenting the higher trees. 

 Mr. G. L. Bates, who procured two full plumaged males in the 

 middle of June at Efulen, writes : " All the Weaver Finches 

 that 1 have seen are confined to the clearings, unless it be the 

 black red-breasted 'Edumvin' {Spennoxpiza guttata), which I 

 have seen building in high trees in the forest." He has also 

 proclaimed specimens at the Ja River and at the Rio Beneto in 

 French Congo. 



In Gaboon it has been met with by Du Chaillu at the 

 Moonda and Gamma Rivers, and by Marche in the Ogowe 

 district. On the Loango Coast Falkenstein obtained the type 

 of Spermospiza immacnlosa, an adult male; and Lucan and Petit 

 both collected specimens at Landana. The type of Vieillot's 

 Loxia gutturalis, an adult female, was discovered by Perrein at 

 the Congo, and the species is not known from further south 

 than the course of that river ; but has been procured by 

 Bohndorff at Kibongo, to the south of Stanley Falls, and by 

 Jameson at Yambuya on the Aruwimi branch. 



