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along the Zambesi river, where it was found by him in small 

 flocks. In Mosambique, Peters collected the types of his 

 Criihagra mosamhicus and a totally different bird, Grithagra 

 crassirostHs, Peters, which has been sometimes wrongly referred 

 to this species ; but as I remarked in 1895, it possibly is the 

 oldest name for Grifhagra rendalli, Tristram, which is really a 

 Weaver-bird belonging to the subfamily Viduinee, and might 

 be placed in my List of the Birds of Africa between Pyromelana 

 and Quelea in a new genus, for wliich I have proposed the name 

 of Anomalospiza. 



Now to resume the history of Serinus butyracens, from 

 which I have diverged. It has been procured by Dr. Stuhl- 

 mann at Quilemane ; in the neighbourhood of Lake Nyasa 

 specimens have been collected by Mr. Alexander Whyte at 

 Fort Hill and Mlosa, and by Col. Manning on the Tanganyika 

 plateau near the boundary of British Central Africa and 

 German Bast Africa ; in Central Africa Bohn procured the 

 species at Gonda, Emin in Ugogo and in the country of the 

 Upper White Nile, at Fadjuli and Tobbo and in the latter 

 district he found these Finches abundant, frequenting the 

 thickly leaved sycamore trees. Fischer met with the species 

 throughout Bast Africa from Mosambique to Wapocoraoland on 

 the north side of the Tana river. He took a nest of the species 

 at Wasso in April, which was built on an acacia tree about 

 five feet from the ground, and he also informs us that it is 

 called in the Lamu district " Kinanga-nangu," and in South 

 Gallaland, " Tscheriko." Mr. Jackson pi^ocured specimens at 

 Tangani, on Manda Island, and at Ntebi near the north-east 

 end of Victoria Nyanza. Mr. Neumann met with the species 

 at Kilimanjaro and in Uganda, and Dr. Ansorge in Unioro. 

 In Somaliland it has been found by M. Revoil, and according 

 to Lord Lovat it frequents the valleys of South and Central 

 Abyssinia. Heuglin procured the type of his Grithagra barbata 



