LINURGUS CONCOLOR 1 
Linurgus concolor. 
Amblyospiza concolor, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1888, pp. 229, 232 St. 
Thomas Isl. ; Sharpe, Cat. B.M. xiii. p. 670 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. 
I. No. 458 (1896). 
Neospiza concolor, Salvad. Acc. R. Se. Torino, 1903, p. 26; Bocage, Jorn. 
Lisb. 1904, p. 80 St. Thomas Isl.; Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 278 
(1904). 
Adult. Very similar in colouring to L. rufibrunneus, but a much larger 
bird. Entire plumage rufous brown, with ill-defined blackish centres to 
the feathers of the forehead, crown, hind neck and mantle; wings and tail, 
with the exception of the edges of the feathers, darker brown; under surface 
of the quills silvery brown, slightly paler on the inner margins; under 
wing-coverts rufous brown like the entire under parts. ‘‘Iris pale brown; 
bill dusky brown, with the under mandible whitish; feet brown.’ Total 
length 8 inches, culmen 0:90, wing 4°2, tail 1-9, tarsus 1:0. ¢g, 9.90. Rio 
Quija (F. Newton). 
The Great Brown Short-tailed Finch is confined to the 
Island of St. Thomas. 
The species was discovered by Mr. F. Newton, who informs 
us that it is known to the natives of the island as the 
**Enjolo.” On the east coast he procured two specimens at 
the Rio Quija, which runs through the large forest at Ango- 
lares, and he observed it on the west coast at St. Miguel. 
I overlooked the affinities of this bird when I published my 
third volume of the “ Birds of Africa,” presuming that it had 
been rightly assigned to the genus Amblyospiza, where it 
remained until Count Salvadori pointed out that it is a true 
Finch, and proposed to make it the type of a new genus 
Neospiza (Acc. R. Sc. Torino, 1903, p. 26). 
This species appears to me not to be generically distinct 
from Linurgus rufibrunneus, Gray, and Pheospiza thomensis, 
Bocage, both of which I have referred to the genus Linurgus, 
Reichenbach. 
It comes into my key (B. Afr. III., p. 172): “a. Plumage 
nearly uniform tawny brown, darker above than below.” 
Add. a}. Larger, wing over 4 inches. concolor. b'. Wing under 
3°5 inches, rufibrunneus and thomensis. 
[October, 1904. zh 
