240 HYPARGOS MARGARITATUS 
Hypargos margaritatus. 
Spermophaga margaritata, Strickl. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 418, 
pl. 10 (1844). 
Hypargos margaritatus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 443 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 158 (1904). 
Lagonosticta margaritata, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 275 (1890). 
Amadina verreauxii, Des Murs, Icon. 1849, pl. 64. 
Hypargos verreauxi, Reichenb. Singyv. p. 22, pl. 6, fig. 49 (1863). 
Type. ‘The whole of the upper parts are rich ferruginous brown, 
except the quills, which are dusky within ; the upper tail-coverts and outer 
margins of the rectrices dull vinous red, and their inner webs and apical 
portions black. The circuit of the eyes, cheeks, throat and breast pale 
claret red, rest of lower parts deep black, spotted next the breast and on the 
sides with large pearl-like spots the colour of peach-blossom, of which two 
are placed transversely and subterminally on each feather. Total length 
4-75 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2:1, tail 2, tarsus 0°75” (Strickland). 
Strickland’s Twin-spot inhabited Cape Town. 
The information regarding this species is extremely 
unsatisfactory; of the type H. H. Strickland writes: ‘ This 
beautiful little bird was purchased at Cape Town, and was 
said to have been brought from Madagascar.”’ The specimen 
figured in Des Murs’ ‘‘ Iconographie” was shot by Verreaux 
with a blow-pipe in a garden in Cape Town. As no others 
have been recorded during the last half century, the specimens 
known may have belonged to a race of cage-bred birds which 
has become extinct. 
Hypargos niveiguttatus. 
Spermophaga niveiguttata, Peters, J. f. O. 1868, p. 133 Inhambane ; 
Dubois, Bull. Mus. H. N. Belg. 1886, p. 148 Tanganyzka. 
Hypargos niveiguttatus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 444 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 157 (1904). 
Lagonosticta niveiguttata, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 274 (1890). 
