AMBLYOSPIZA MELANOTA 807 



The most southern range known to me for the species is 

 the Kingani River, where Bohndorff obtained specimens, three 

 of which are in the British Museum, where there are also 

 examples from the following places : Pangani and Lamu 

 (Kirk), Mombasa (Wakefield), Kilimanjaro and Witu (Jack- 

 son), Kikuyu and Msara (Delamere), and Mount Kenia (Mack- 

 inder). Besides the above-named places, specimens have been 

 collected at Nguru (Bohndorff), Mamboio (Kirk), Rufu River 

 (Stuhlmann), Arusha, Maurui, Melinda, at Massa and Bonde 

 on the Tana River (Fischer), and Somaliland (Revoil). Dr. 

 Stuhlmann found it called by the natives of the Zanzibar 

 Coast " Ngoma msindo." The species, apparently, does not 

 extend its range so far west as 35° E. long., and is replaced to 

 the westward in Central Equatorial Africa by A. melanota. 



Amblyospiza melanota. 



Coryphegnathus melanotus, Heugl. J. f. 0. 1863, pp. 21, 163 Wliite Nile. 



Amblyospiza melanota, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 504 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 456 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 132 (1899) ecjg ; 

 Eeiehen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 100 (1904). 



Amblyospiza melanotis, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1888, p. 1 Lado, Magungo, 

 Monhittu. 



Amblyospiza albifrons (non Vigor), Eeiehen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 308 Kasso)igo. 



Amblyospiza setbiopica, Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 1902, p. 9 Kaffa. 



Amblyospiza albifrons jcthiopica, Eeiehen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 99 (1904). 



Adult male. Similar to that of A. albifrons and with the same amount 

 of white on the forehead, but differs in the remainder of the head and the 

 neck being of a more cinnamon shade. " Iris brown ; bill black ; feet olive 

 black " (Jackson). Total length 73 inches, culmeu 10, wing 3-8, tail 29, 

 tarsus 0-9. <? , 21. 11. 79. Magungo (Emin). 



Adult female and immature. Yery similar to those of A. unicolor. 



Heuglin's Grosbeak-Weaver ranges over Central Africa 

 from 10° N. lat. to 4° S. lat. 



Within the above, somewhat limited, area the species is 

 apparently abundant wherever there is marshland. The type 



