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length 4-5 inches, cuImenO-4, wing 255, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-55. 5 , 30. 11. 99. 

 Nairobi (Delamere). 



Immature. Similar in pattern to the adult female but differing in the 

 pale portions of the feathers being light rufous shaded brown on the upper 

 parts and brownish buff on all the under parts, and the entire chest very 

 strongly streaked. " Iris brown ; bill dusky green ; legs dusky." .J , 17. 3. 00. 

 Mt. Kenya (Delamere). 



Ruppell's Masked Canary inhabits Eastern Africa between 

 15° S. lat. and 15° N. lat. 



Tbis species replaces its southern ally 8. scotops to the 

 north of the Zambesi river, and is apparently not uncommon 

 in Nyasaland, where Mr. Alexander White and Consul Alfred 

 Sharpe have both met with it, at least as far south as Zomba. 



Fischer collected specimens in Arusha and at Lake Nai- 

 washa, and the species has been recorded from German E. 

 Africa at Karagwe, and as far west as Bukoba. In British 

 E. Africa these Finches are apparently abundant, for in the 

 British Museum there is a specimen from Lake Sanne in 

 Uganda, and a fine series from the highlands of Kilimanjaro 

 and Kenia. Mr. Jackson procured the species at Nandi, and 

 informs ns that its Suaheli name is " Chiriko." 



The species, although not recorded from the Somali 

 country, is not uncommon throughout Abyssinia to as far 

 north as Senafe. 



Lord Lovat, during the Weld- Blund ell expedition from 

 Berbera to the Blue Nile, shot specimens at Harrar Meyer, 

 Warabili and Bilo, and writes : " We usually met with this 

 Siskin singly or in pairs, in company with flocks of Qnelia 

 sethio^nra.^' 



Specimens have also been procured by Mr. Pease at 

 Adis Ababa, and by Antinori and Ragazzi at Mahal Uonz 

 and Sciotalit. 



According to Heuglin these Finches are plentiful around 

 Gondar, where he procured the type of his Fn'vgiJla melanopi^, 



