QUELEA CARDINALIS 119 
is a specimen in the British Museum from the Quanza River, 
which is the furthest south I can trace the species. 
The most southern range known to me for the species in 
Eastern Africa is Mtoni, on the Kingani River, 6° 30’ S. lat. 
Here Mr. Bohndorff has procured a specimen. Fischer records 
it as rare at Pangani, and he also met with it at Ualimi, 
on the Tana River. It is certainly scarce in Hastern and 
Central Africa, for the only other specimen known to me 
from these parts is the type of Foudia hxmatocephala, procured 
at a marsh in the Bongo country, about 7° N. lat., 28° 30’ H. 
long., to the west of the Upper White Nile, and was the only 
specimen found by Heuglin. 
The egg is described by Mr. Kuschel as oval in form, olive 
green with dusky spots and a slight gloss, and measures 0°73 
x 0°55. 
Quelea cardinalis. 
Hyphantica cardinalis, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 325 ; 1881, pl. 1, fig. 1 Lado. 
Quelea cardinalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 256, pl. 10, fig. 2 (1890) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 355 (1896); Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125, 
pi. 3, fig. 34 (1899) egg; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 112 (1904). 
Adult male. Similar to Q. erythrops, from which it differs in the hinder 
crown and back of head being mottled with blackish centres to the feathers ; 
chin and entire throat uniform bright scarlet ; bill much smaller. Iris brown ; 
bill blackish ; tarsi and feet reddish brown. Total length 4:3 inches, culmen 
0:45, wing 2:3, tail 1:4, tarsus 0:7. ¢, 30.6. 81. Lado (Emin). 
Adult females and young males. Similar in plumage to those of the other 
members of the genus, but may be readily distinguished by the much smaller 
bill; upper mandible dark brown, lower one paler. ? ad, and ¢ juv. 
13. 8.79. Luado (Emin). 
The Cardinal Dioch inhabits Eastern Africa from 7° 8. lat. 
to 5° N. lat. 
The species inhabits both sides of Lake Tanganyika, 
for it was contained in Capt. Storms’s collection, and Bohm 
met with it at Karema. Fischer remarked that in habits 
