LAGONOSTICTA MELANOGASTRA 247 
indistinct narrow dusky bars on some of the greater coverts and inner 
secondaries ; under surface of wing with a silvery gloss and whitish edges 
to the coverts; rump and upper tail-coverts deep crimson ; tail brownish 
black, with numerous obsolete narrow bars, visible in certain lights; a 
broad track down the centre of the chest, abdomen and the under tail- 
coverts jet black; sides of body deep vinous-shaded crimson. “Iris red ; 
eyelids paler red; bill violet-shaded black; tarsi and feet dusky rufous.” 
Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2:1, tail 1:9, tarsus 0°65. 9¢, 
1.93. Galanga (Anchieta). 
Type, female. Similar, but with the irides brown. ¢?, Quindumbo 
(Anchieta). 
The Ashy-vinous Fire-finch inhabits Angola and Benguela. 
In the Tring Museum there is a specimen of this rare 
species obtained by Mr. Pemberton at Bailundu in July. This 
is the only record I find of its occurring in Angola; the other 
specimens known to me were collected by Anchieta, the type, 
a female from Quindumbo and a male from Galanga, and was 
known by the natives at the former place as the “‘ Ocequenua”’ 
and at the latter as the “ Xemico.” Through the kindness 
of my friend, Prof. Barbasa du Bocage, I have been able 
to describe both of Anchieta’s specimens and have figured the 
male. This is a true Lagonosticta, in which genus it was 
originally placed. 
Lagonosticta melanogastra. 
Lagonosticta melanogastra, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 273 Djur ; Hartert, 
Noy. Zool. 1901, p. 341 Niger. 
Habropyga rara, Antin. Cat. p. 72 (1864). 
Lagonosticta rara, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 282 (1890); Shelley, B. 
Afr. I. No. 423 (1896) ; Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 201 (1904). 
Habropyga hypomelas, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 252 Djur. 
Rhodopyga hypomelas, Heugl. J. f. O. 1868, pl. i, fig. 4. 
Habropyga hypomelzena, Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 611 (1870). 
Habropyga cenochroa, Hartl. J. f. O. 1882, p. 322 Obbo. 
Adult male. Mostly crimson, the head, neck, back, scapular, lesser 
wing-coverts, edges of greater-coverts, upper tail-coverts, edges of tail- 
