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British Museum, and Captain Boyd Alexander during his 

 journey up that river found them breeding in August. In 

 British Central Africa specimens have been collected in Angoni- 

 land, at Zomba, Karonga and on the Tanganyika plateau. At 

 Cape Delgado the species has been met with by Sr. Augusto 

 Cardosa. 



In German East Africa the species is apparently abundant 

 and generally distribnted. In Ugogo it is known to the 

 natives as " Turugu," according to Dr. S. T. Pruen, and speci- 

 mens have been collected at Igonda, Kagehi, Baguero, XJsongo 

 and Bukoba. In the Upper White Nile district Dr. Ansorge 

 has met with these Buntiags at Fort George on the Albert 

 Edward Nyanza, and Emin at Kiri in 4° 18' 10" N. lat., 31° 40' 

 28" long. I much doubt if the allied species F. septemstriata 

 ranges so far south as the Lake district of British East Africa 

 or Somaliland, for all the specimens yet collected by Mr. 

 Jackson and Mr. Lort Phillips are in the British Museum and 

 belong to F. tahcqnsi. These comprise a specimen from Ulu in 

 Ukambani and one from Turquel in the Suk country, where 

 Mr. Jackson found them " very plentiful along the stony banks 

 of the river in the hills, and there are four specimens from the 

 Wagga mountain of Somaliland collected by Mr. Lort Phillips, 

 who writes : " These little Buntings used to frequent the 

 Hankadeely well at mid-day in flocks of about a dozen. I did 

 not meet with them anywhere else during the expedition." 

 Mr. Pease found them abundant in Shoa on " the plateau, 

 perching on stones and rocks in the proximity of water." 



In Southern Abyssinia the ranges of F. taJiapisi and 

 F. septemstriata meet, for in the British Museum there are two 

 of the former labelled " Laga Hardim, $ , 14. 1. 99 (Lord 

 Lovat) " and "Torrente di Farre, s , 14. 3. 86 {Bagazzi}," and two 

 of the latter—" Gerru, j^ , 6. 2. 99 (Lord Lovat) " and " Mahal- 

 Uonz, 16. 8. 77 (Antinori)." 



