POLIOSPIZA REICHAKDI. 229 



Poliospiza reichardi. (PI. 26, fig. 2.) 



Poliospiza reichardi, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1882, p. 209 Eakoma ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. xii. p. 343 (1888) ; Eeichen. Yog. D. 0. Afr. p. 196 

 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 274 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1899, p. 367 

 Ikawa ; Jackson, t. c. p. 620 Kcmiassia. 



Poliospiza striatipectus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 258 Elgeyu ; Shelley, B. 

 Afr. I. No. 276 (1894) ; id. Ibis, 1897, p. 528 Nyiha. 



Adult. Entire plumage brown above and the under parts white streaked 

 with brown on the throat and flanks. Feathers of the forehead, crown and 

 back with white edges; back and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform, the 

 edges of the feathers being only slightly paler ; the edges of the median 

 and greater coverts of a whitish shade, and slightly broader at the ends of 

 these coverts and on the sides of the inner secondaries ; inner edges of the 

 quills and the under wing-coverts whity brown. Sides of head brown with 

 a white eyebrow extending back to the sides of the nape, and a slight 

 mottling of white below the ear-coverts ; under parts white with broad 

 brown shaft-stripes on the throat and flanks, most strongly marked on the 

 crop ; thighs mottled with brown. Iris, bill and legs brown. Total length 

 5-5 and 5-4 inches, culmen 045, wing 3'1, tail 2-3, tarsus 0-55. <? , 24. 8. 96, 

 Kamassia; ? , 8. 7. 90. Elgeyu (Jackson). 



Reichard's Seed-eater ranges from the Njasa district to the 

 Equator. 



In Nyasaland Mr. Alexander Whyte procured a specimen 

 on the Nyika plateau, and Colonel Manning another at Ikawa 

 on the Tanganyika plateau. Bohm discovered the species 

 at Kakoma, where he procured two males, April 14, 1881. 

 In the most northern range known for this species, 

 Mr, Jackson shot a pair, which were breeding at Elgeyu, July 

 8, 1890, and remarks : " Sings very sweetly, like a Linnet :" 

 these are the types of P. striatipectus, Sharpe. He afterwards 

 met with the species at Kamassia in August. 



Poliospiza tristriata. 



Serinus tristriata, Eiipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 97, pi. 35, fig. 2 (1835) 



Abyssinia. 

 Poliospiza tristriata, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 345 (1888) Shoa, 



Abyssinia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, pp. 276, 537 Shoa; 



Hartert, Kat. Mus. Senck. p. 75 (1891) Abyssinia; Kuschel, J. f. 0. 



