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between Gambaga and the Loango Coast. In the latter 
country it has been procured by Falkenstein and Major 
Mechow met with it in Angola. In Benguela Anchieta 
obtained specimens at Capangombe and Humbe, and over 
South Africa, with the exception of Cape Colony, it is generally 
distributed. Andersson writes: “This is a very common 
species in Damaraland, where it congregates in immense flocks 
after the breeding season, and it is also common in the Lake 
regions.” Mr. Fleck met with it at Gansis and Korizi in the 
Kalahari in May, and found it in flocks at Boliwa on Lake 
Ngami in June. The type of Lovia lathami came from Kurri- 
chaine and is a female, or male in winter plumage. 
From the Orange River Colony Mr. E. Symonds wrote: 
* These little birds seem to be particularly fond of the town 
of Kroonstad, which they frequent in large numbers. I have 
several in my aviary, and observe that in summer, when the 
males get their red colour about the head, the bills of the 
females turn yellow.” 
In Natal the species has been procured by Mr. T. L. Ayres 
at Durban, Major Clark found it abundant at the Modder 
River, and it has been met with in Zululand by Messrs. Wood- 
ward, and at Inhambane by Dr. Peters. In the Transvaal it is 
apparently more plentiful, for, according to Mr. T. Ayres, in 
the winter season flocks of this species, and also of Pyromelana 
taha and P. oviw, come for miles up the river from their 
favourite patches of reeds in the swamps where they roost, 
to feed on the minute grass-seeds in the old cultivated ground 
about Potchefstroom, returning in large flights to the same 
swamps in the evening. Although the different species feed 
together, also often in company with flocks of Passer arcuatus, 
so closely that they may be killed by the same shot, yet, in 
going to their feeding ground and in returning to their 
roosting places, the birds of each species keep by themselves 
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