QUELEA XTHIOPICA 115 
Quelea sanguinirostris ethiopica, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 109 (1904). 
Ploceus sanguinirostris, var. major, Sundey. (ify. K. Vet. Akad. Férh. 
Stockh. 1850, p. 126. 
Hyphantica ethiopica, var. intermedia, Reichen. J. f. O. 1886, p. 393 
Gonda, Durama, Ndi, Barawa. 
Quelea intermedia, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 259, pl. 10, fig. 4 (1890) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 351 (1896). 
Very similar to Q. quelea, but differs in the bill being very slightly 
stronger, and in full plumaged males the forehead and back of head are 
sandy buff like the crown; breast generally slightly more uniform. Total 
length 4:8 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 2:7, tail 1:5, tarsus 08. ¢g, 29. 6. 68. 
Ailet (Jesse). 
This species is subject to the same style of variations of plumage as 
Q. quelea. Those of both species which have no black on the head or throat 
when in full dress have received the name of Q. russi, and others of the 
present species with a few scattered black feathers on the forehead repre- 
sent Y. mtermedia. These latter are probably hybrids between Q. quelea and 
the present species, and are represented in the British Museum by speci- 
mens from Lamu, and others from the Albert Edward Nyanza are nearly 
intermediate between this form and Q. quelea. 
The Buff-fronted Dioch inhabits Hastern Africa between 
8° §. lat. and 17° N. lat. 
Dr. Reichenow in his last work refers all the specimens 
from German Hast Africa to this species. His Q. intermedia 
was probably founded upon cross-bred birds between QQ. quelea 
and @. xthiopica, both of which forms range into the Great 
Lake district of Central Africa; and in the British Museum 
there is a very typical example of Q. xthiopica from Ugogo. 
Bohm has collected specimens at Qua Mpara in the Tan- 
ganyika district, at Gonda and at Mdaburu in Ugogo; here, 
according to Dr. S. 'T. Pruen, it is known to the natives as the 
*Maumbi.” Sir John Kirk also collected specimens in Ugogo 
and near Lamu Island, and Fischer's collection contained many 
examples from the Pangani district, Kagehi at the southern 
end of Victoria Nyanza, at several places near the Lower Tana 
River, and also at Barawa in Somaliland. In the country to 
