URAZGINTHUS GRANATINUS 179 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. Rump and upper tail-coverts dark cobalt blue. 
a1. Breast cinnamon. 
a2, Har-coverts lilac; upper throat black. . granatinus, 3 ad. 
b2. Ear-coyerts notlilac; upper throat whitish granatinus, ? and 3 juv. 
b1. Breast cobalt in adult males; cinnamon 
with white spots in females and young birds. ianthinogaster. 
b. Rump and upper tail-coverts pale verditer blue. 
ci. Sexes alike in plumage ; no red on head. 
c2. Crown brown. 
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d?, Entire head, excepting the nape, verditer 
blucgaeemes Gack cs es ~~!) Cyanocephalus. 
d+, Sexes differ in the males only having a patch 
of crimson on the ear-coverts . . . . . bengalus. |? 
Ureginthus granatinus. 
Fringilla granatina, Linn. S. N. i. p. 319 (1766). 
Ureginthus granatinus, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 210 (1904). 
Granatina granatina, Sharpe, B. M. xiii. p. 403 (1890) ; Butler, Foreign 
Finches in Captivity, p. 122, pl. 24 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. I. 
No. 395 (1896). 
Adult male. Forehead, feathers over the eyes, rump, upper and under 
tail-coverts cobalt blue; crown and mantle bright cinnamon ; wings nearly 
uniform brown, the feathers having narrow rufous shaded edges ; under 
wing-coverts and inner margins of the quills whitish ; tail-feathers black, 
with obscure bars and a slight edging of blue; sides of head below and 
behind the eye bright lilac; in front of eyes, chin, centre of breast and the 
thighs black; remainder of neck and body bright cinnamon. “Iris red; 
bare skin round the eye reddish; bill red at tip, purple at base; legs and 
feet purplish” (Stark). Total length 5:6 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2:3, 
tail 3-0, tarsus 0°65. ¢g, 5.71. Griqualand (Atmore). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in being much paler and having no 
black on the throat; crown and back of neck sandy rufous; mantle ashy 
brown ; under tail-coverts buff, like the under parts generally. Wing 2°25. 
9, 12. 7. 66. Damaraland (Andersson). 
Immature male. Similar to the adult female, from which it differs in the 
chin and upper throat being black ; crown ashy brown like the mantle, and 
mottled with a few bright cinnamon feathers. Makalaka (Bradshaw). 
