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shows more rufous on the outer feathers. " Iris dark brown ; upper mandible 

 dusky, lower one yellowish ; feet horn colour." Total length 5'5 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 3-1, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-65. ^ , 16. 8. 68. (Blanford.) 



The Red-winged Rock-Bunting inhabits northern Tropical 

 Africa, ranging from Senegambia to the Niger and eastwards 

 into Abyssinia. 



The Paris Museum contains a specimen from Senegambia 

 procured by Mr. Arsenes, and it has been recorded from the 

 same country by M. Rochebrune. Captain Griifard has obtained 

 a male at Gambaga in October and Captain Boyd Alexander 

 also met with the species there in January, he also procured 

 a pair at Gonieri in May, 1901. In the British Museum there 

 is a specimen from the Niger, which formed part of the collec- 

 tion made by W. A. Forbes during his fatal journey up that 

 river, and as it was not labelled was probably one of the last 

 specimens he shot before he died at Shonga, January 14, 

 1883. 



On the opposite side of the continent the species is gene- 

 rally distributed over Abyssinia, and it appears to me that the 

 occurrence of this species further south is very doubtful, for 

 the specimens collected by Mr. Lort Phillips in Somaliland 

 and by Mr. Jackson at Ulu in TJkambani, referred to this 

 species, really belong to F. tahapisi. In Southern Abyssinia 

 and Shoa both species occur, and have been procured by Lord 

 Lovat and Antinori, for in the British Museum there are 

 specimens of this species labelled " Gerru, <? , 6. 2. 99 (Lord 

 Lovat)," and " Shoa, 3^ , 16-8 (Antinori)," and nine others from 

 further north : Bejook, Ain, Senafe and Sahati, collected by 

 Dr. Blanford and Mr. Jesse. 



Brehm records these Buntings as common along the banks 

 of the Nile in Southern Nubia, and he found them in April 

 on the Samhar coast and in the less elevated portion of the 

 highlands to the east of Massawa. Heuglia met with them 



