126 AMADINA ERYTHROCEPHALA 
The species is known from four specimens in the British 
Museum, all labelled ‘‘ West Africa.’ The type was presented 
by Mr. J. Pulham; another adult male was formerly in Sir 
Andrew Smith’s collection and the other two specimens, both 
females, were cage-birds. The species apparently does not 
inhabit Senegambia, where it is replaced by A. fasciata, but 
as I have already remarked, to this form may belong the 
specimen from Ngombi Manyanga on the Lower Congo, pro- 
cured by Bohndorff and referred to A. fasciata, by Hartlanb 
(Abhandl. nat. Ver Bremen, 1891, p. 19), which I have not 
seen. 
Dr. Reichenow regards this form asa variety of A. fasciata ; 
that may be the case, if all the four known specimens were 
cage-birds. I admit him to be right in assigning to Urobrachya 
avillaris, U. affinis, Cab., as only a cage variety ; and upon the 
same theory we might look upon Hypargos margaritatus 
(Strickl., 1844) as a cage form of H. niveiguttatus (Peters, 1868), 
but in the present as well as in the latter case, we require 
more evidence than we have at present. 
Amadina erythrocephala. 
Loxia erycephala, Linn. S. N. (x.) p. 172 (1858). 
Loxia erythrocephala, id. 8. N. (xii.) i. p. 801 (1766) Africa. 
Amadina erythrocephala, Smith, Il. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pl. 69 (1841) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 290 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 361 
(1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 126 (1899) egg ; Reichen. Vég. Afr. 
iii. p. 147 (1904) ; Clarke, Ibis, 1904, p. 523 Bloemfontein. 
Loxia brasiliana, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 19 (1783). 
Loxia maculata, Burchell, Tray. 8. Afr. ii. p. 269 (1824). 
“ Fringilla reticulata, Voigt,” Cuy. Thierr. p. 582 (1831). 
Amadina argus, Reichenb. Singv. p. 35, pl. 12, fig. 108 (1863). 
Adult male. Upper parts ashy brown; head crimson, the ashy brown 
showing through on the nape; some of the median and greater wing-coverts 
with white ends and subterminal black bars; rump and upper tail-coverts 
also with subterminal blackish bars; tail dark brown, with white ends to 
