158 ORTYGOSPIZA ATRICOLLIS 
August 4. The nest resembled the one already described. 
Doherty obtained the species in Kikuyu. 
I find no mention of the species from Somaliland ; but 
in Southern Abyssinia Lord Lovat met with it at Jifadensa 
in January, and at Jaka in February. Mr. Pease, while in 
this district, procured a specimen at Guelan, in January, and 
remarks: ‘‘ Generally found near water on open rolling grass 
table-lands; it makes a curious clicking noise, which is very 
difficult to locate; it towers high in the air, and while in 
flight clicks continually; it falls rapidly to the earth, like a 
stone.” In 1863 Heuglin proposed the name of O. fuscocrissa 
for the birds which he met with in flocks in May, in the 
Dembea and Tiré districts, and later he remarks that the bird 
procured by himself, Rippell and Lefebre, in Abyssinia, 
appeared to him distinct from the White Nile birds, which he 
found in the Bongo country. These latter really belong to 
O. atricollis, of which the present form is little more than a 
subspecies. Heuglin’s notes on the habits agree better with 
those made by the South African field naturalists than with 
those made by Mr. Pease, in South Abyssinia, who remarks 
that he found them in flocks with other Finches in the light 
bush near water. They frequented the ground and flew low, 
with now and then a shrill cry of “ter-ter” in a trumpet- 
like tone. 
Ortygospiza atricollis. 
Fringilla atricollis, Vieill. N. Dict. Hist. Nat. p. 182 (1817) Senegambia. 
Ortygospiza atricollis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 270 (1890) ; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 390 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125 (1899) egg ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 202 (1904). 
Amadina lunulata, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 148 (1857). 
Adult male. Forehead black; remainder of the upper parts dark brown, 
with slightly paler edges to the feathers; under wing-coverts and inner 
margins to the quills white, the former having a slight rufous tinge; tail with 
some white towards the ends of the three, sometimes four, outer pairs 
