232 ESTRILDA CHARMOSYNA 
Ansorge at Usoga. Lord Delamere discovered the type at the 
Athi River, and two specimens were collected for Mr. Jackson 
at Ankole during the expedition to the Ruwenzori Moun- 
tains, which are the only examples recorded from north of 
the Equator. The known range of this species and its nearest 
ally, 1. erythonota, is separated by over 700 miles. 
Estrilda charmosyna. 
Habropyga charmosyna, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 78; id.J.f. O. 
1881, p. 333 Berbera. 
Estrilda charmosyna, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 399 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 411 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 190 (1904) 
pt. Somaliland. 
Estrilda nigrimentum, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genoy. 1888, p. 281 Shoa ; 
Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 399 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 412 
(1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 190 (1904). 
Adult. Similar to EH. erythronota in style of plumage, but differing in 
the crown, mantle, neck, throat and under parts being paler and more pink; 
black of under parts restricted to a few feathers on the chin; centre of 
breast, abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts pinkish buff; a rather 
strongly marked white marginal band behind the ear-coverts. “ Tris brown; 
bill and legs black.’’ Total length 5 inches, culmen 0:35, wing 2:2, tail 2:5, 
tarsus 0°55. 14. 11. 97, Hargeisa (Hawker). 
The Somali Black-faced Waxbill inhabits Somaliland, 
Southern Abyssinia and Shoa. 
The type was discovered by Abden Gindi at Berbera on 
the Somali coast. This specimen is not in such full plumage 
as the type of H. nigrimentum, which came from Shoa, but I 
see no reason to suppose them to be separable as local forms. 
The species has been procured by Dr. Donaldson Smith at 
Bussarler in Western Somaliland, by Mr. Hawker at Har- 
geisa and Jifa Medir, by Erlanger in Arussi Gallaland, by 
Mr. Harrison at Tadechamulka, by Mr. Pease at Owaramulka, 
and the type of FL. nigrimentum by Dr. Ragazzi at Farré in 
Shoa. 
