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Uroloncha cantans. 
Lihuaft Niet an, lark 
Loxia cantans, Gm. S. N. ii. p. 859 (1788). /#"? 
Urobrachya cantans, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 364 (1896); Cholmley, Ibis, 
1897, p. 206 Haddat. 
Aidemosine cantans, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 371 (1890); Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 201, pl. 38, fig. 2 (1894); Nehrkorn, 
Kat. Hiers. p. 127 (1899) egg; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 156 (1904). 
Habropyga cantans, Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 339 egg. 
Aidemosyne orientalis, Lorenz and Hellmayr, Orn. Monatsh. 1901, p. 39; 
id. J. f. O. 1901, p. 232, N. H. Afr., Arabia. 
Aidemosyne cantans orientalis, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ili, p. 156 (1904). 
Adult. Upper parts brown, paler on the head, mantle and inner portion 
of the wings, and dark sepia brown on the remainder of the wings, the 
rump, upper tail-coverts and tail; forehead, crown and back of neck with 
dark shaft-stripes, and buff edges to the feathers towards the forehead, which 
has a scale-like appearance; mantle and inner secondaries with narrow, 
darker brown bars; under wing-coverts and inner edges to the quills buff; 
sides of head and neck pale brown ; under parts white, shaded with brownish 
buff on the throat and flanks; feathers of the chin and upper throat with 
cinnamon centres, giving a scale-like appearance; sides of crop and the 
flanks indistinctly barred with brown. ‘Iris brown; bill lead-blue; legs 
dusky.” Total length 4°3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2:1, tail 1-8, tarsus 0:45. 
9, 18. 12.02. Kawa (A. L. Butler.) 
The Warbling Silver-bill ranges eastward from Senegambia 
by Gambago into Hastern Africa, from Zanzibar to Bogosland 
and Shendi on the Nile, in about 17° N. lat., extending also into 
South Arabia. 
The type of Latham’s Warbling Grosbeak probably came 
from Senegambia, as the species was known to Vieillot from 
that country, where it has since been met with by Marche 
and De Compitgne at Dakar on Cape Verde, by Peyés at 
Casamanse, and by Dr. Percy Rendall at Bathurst, where he 
obtained two specimens and the pendent nest, which contained 
white eggs. The eggs measure 0'6 x 0°42, and according to 
Dr. Russ, these birds sometimes lay as many as nine in a 
nest. The most southern range in West Africa yet known for 
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