LAGONOSTICTA SENEGALA 257 
colour, front and sides of chest with some small white spots. Ivis red; bill 
red, with the culmen, edges of upper mandible and the keel black; feet 
brownish flesh colour. Wing 1:9 inches. Gambia R. (Whiteley). 
Immature. Differs from the adult female only in having no white spots 
on the chest. 92, Cape Verde (Laglaize). 
The Senegal Fire-finch ranges from Senegambia to the 
Niger. 
The species is well represented in the British Museum by 
specimens from Cape Verde, Dakar, Gambia, Sierra Leone, 
River Volta and the Niger. 
Dr. Rendall records it as “common, specially noted in 
flocks”’ at the Gambia, and Mr. Budgett found it on M’Carthy 
Island “very common about the native huts.” From Sierra 
Leone Mr. Kemp writes: ‘‘ Abundant at Rotifunk, roosting 
in the orange-trees of our compound, where my native boy, 
with a lantern, has caught them in his hand at night.” Ussher 
met with the species in Fantee and along the Volta River, and 
Dr. Baumann at Sebbe, in Togoland. Among the four speci- 
mens in the British Museum from Lokoja there is one, an 
apparently adult male, obtained by Capt. M. Ferryman, which 
exactly resembles a South Abyssinian specimen of L. brunneiceps, 
labelled Harar, 2, 17. 6. 02 (Zaphiro), so I presume that the 
range of LZ. senegala and L. brunneiceps meet at Lokoja on the 
Niger. 
Dr. Russ gives the following description of the young birds: 
*Nesting-down brownish white; little wart at the angle of 
the beak bluish white. Young plumage almost uniform dirty 
grey; only the faint, still delicate dark red on the croup to 
centre of tail and the outer webs of the tail-feathers can be 
clearly recognised in this species; beak shining black; eyes 
black without yellow ring; the little spots on the sides are 
wanting. Change of colour commences in the third to the 
fifth week, completed in about six weeks.” 
(December, 1904, 17 
