252 LAGONOSTICTA JAMESONI 
Chinchouxo (Falkenstein) and Leopoldsville (Bohndorf) ; 
therefore Falkenstein obtained both this Fire-finch and 
L. landane at Chinchouxo. 
The species is represented in the British Museum by three 
specimens, the type discovered by Bohndorff at Kassongo in 
May, and a male and female shot by Lord Lovat in Southern 
Abyssinia, at Chercher Lake, January 2, and at Jawaha, 
February 23. These specimens are all extremely similar. 
I have also seen a male procured by Mr. Jackson at Katwe, 
during the late expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains, and 
it has been recorded from Valsaco, near Rimo (Emin). 
The species closely resembles in plumage the immature of 
L. rhodopareia, which it agrees with in size and colouring of 
bill, but may be readily distinguished by the pink shade on 
the red parts and absence of any red gloss on the crown and 
back of neck. 
Lagonosticta jamesoni. 
Lagonosticta jamesoni, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 355 Tatin R.; Sharpe, Cat. 
B. M. xiii. p. 283, pl. 11, fig. 1 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 425 
(1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 200 (1904). 
Lagonosticta rubricata (non Licht.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. 110 Mapicuti. 
Adult male. Similar to LZ. rhodopareia in the amount of red on the head, 
but differs from it and from all the other known species in the back being of 
a cinnamon shade with an obsolete crimson gloss ; the red of the under parts 
is rosy pink; scarcely any small white spots on the breast. ‘Iris brown; 
bill bluish ash, with the culmen and tip dusky; tarsi and feet pinkish ash” 
(T. Ayres). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0:35, wing 1:9, tail 1:5, tarsus 
0:55. g,9.12.80. Tatin R. (Jameson). 
Adult female. Upper parts as in the male; under parts paler, with 
broad pinkish buff edges to the black under tail-coverts. Wing 1:9. 9, 
17. 8. 80. Umfuli R. (Jameson). 
Immature female. Differs from the adult female in having no tinge of 
red on the crown, neck, or mantle, and less red on the under parts, which 
are mostly sandy buff. ¢°,2.11.82. Rustenberg (Jameson). 
