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eastern boundary of that country, at the Ja River, by Mr. 
Bates. Marche met with it at Doumé in the Ogowé district, 
and up the Congo Jameson obtained two specimens at Yam- 
buya; but I do not find it recorded from further south in 
Western Africa. 
In Southern Equatorial Africa Emin procured it at Bukoba, 
and Mr. Percival an adult specimen from Mombasa. The type 
of Amadina hartlaudi was obtained in Mozambique by Fornasini, 
and the type of the species was discovered by Mr. T. Ayres in 
Natal. In this colony Mr. Gordge procured at Durban the 
only specimen he met with, and believed it to be a young male. 
Hypargos harterti. 
Hypargos harterti, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. p. 30 (1903). 
Lagonosticta nitidula (non. Hartl. 1865), Hartl. Bull. Mus. Nat. Belg. 
1886, p. 145, pl. 4. figs. 1, 2 Tanganyika; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. 
p. 279 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 432 (1896); Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. iii. p. 195 (1904). 
Adult male. Forehead and crown ashy grey; remainder of the upper 
parts brown, with the upper tail-coverts darker, and the tail entirely brownish 
black; under wing-coverts sandy buff, and the inner edges of the quills 
whitish; sides of head, throat, front and sides of body ashy grey, fading 
into buff on the remainder of the body and the under tail-coverts ; sides of 
forehead and head, throat and crop strongly washed with crimson-shaded 
pink ; lower throat and fore-chest with small, rounded, white twin-spots on 
each of the feathers. ‘Iris brown; bill purplish red; feet grey.” Total 
length 4:1 inches, culmen 0:4, wing 1:9, tail 1:7, tarsus 0°6. g, 21. 5. 01. 
Sagua, on Quanza River (C. H. Pemberton). 
Immature. Uniform light brown, paler beneath; no white spots, but the 
throat is slightly mottled with a wash of vinous red. 
The Brown Twin-spot ranges from Lake Tanganyika to the 
Quanza and Zambesi Rivers. 
The types, an adult male and an immature bird, were dis- 
covered by Storms during his expedition to Lake Tanganyika. 
