246 LAGONOSTICTA CINEREOVINACEA 
b+. No jet black band down the centre of 
GOGH o- ao 3 . . « . melanogastra 2, and juv. 
b%, Entire bill Satine Bleciieht 
c+, Billlarger; culmen about 045 . . . . . polionota. 2y o 
d*, Bill smaller; culmen about 0:35. 
a>. Mantle more olive shaded brown, with no 
trace of red. 
a*, Crown and back of neck tinged with red rhodopareia, ad. > 4 © 
b&, Crown and back of neck not tinged with 
red. 
a’. Red, on under parts less pink . . . rhodopareia, juv. 
b7 Red, on under parts more pink. . congicd. » <-\ 
b>. Mantle more cinnamon brown, often eect 
with red like the crown and back of neck jamesoni. 2» <2 
b?, Entire basal half of lower mandible pale. 
c®, Upper mandible entirely blackish ; no red shade 
on crown, hind neck, or mantle. . rubricata. ~ 5 
. Upper mandible pale, with the oglaen paces 
crown and back of neck tinged with red. . . landane. 2 4 
b. Under tail-coverts pale. 
cl. Bill pale, with the culmen, keel and cutting edges 
black. 
c?, Redon plumage more scarlet ; breast with or with- 
out round white spots. Females mostly brown ; | 
red confined to front of eyes, upper tail-coverts 
and tail. 
e’. Nape and the entire crown red. . . . . . senegala, g,ad. 2¢ | 
f*. Nape and generally part of crown brown. 
e+. More red on hind-neck, mantle and breast brunneiceps, g ,ad. 24 
j*. less red on hind-neck, mantle and breast rendalli,f,ad. 21 
d?, Red on plumage more pink; breast with white 
a 
spots inclining to bars. . . . = G3. TUfOpiCto Moab 
d+, Bill blackish, with only base of lower raendible pale, 
plumage dusky ash with no white spots . . . . rhodopsis. 26% 
Lagonosticta cinereovinacea. (Pl. 33, fig. 2.) 
Lagonosticta cinereovinacea, Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1889, p. 49 Quimdumbo. | 
Estrilda cinereovinacea, Shelley, B. Afr. I. p. 414 (1896); Reichen. 
Vég. Afr. iii, p. 192 (1904). 
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Adult male. Tntire head, neck, mantle, middle back and lesser wing- 
coyerts deep slaty grey; remainder of the wings browner, with a few 
