PYTELIA LINEATA 267 
and Dr. Hartert remarks: ‘‘ These specimens have the throat 
and ashy bars on the underside rather pale, and may be worthy 
of subspecific rank, if a large series can be compared.” He 
then proposes to separate as a subspecies the two specimens 
known to him from Lado under the name of P. phenicoptera 
emint. ‘These birds differ from Senegambian specimens of 
P. phenicoptera in having the under wing-coverts barred with 
ashy grey, in having somewhat narrower white bars on the 
feathers of the breast and under tail-coverts, and in having the 
throat as dark ashy grey as the crown.” 
As I regard P. pheenicopterus emini as a very doubtfully 
distinct form, I look upon Lado as the most southern and 
eastern known range for the present species. Heuglin records 
it from Wau and Bongo in the Gazelle River district, where 
he found it to be shy and scarce, generally in pairs frequenting 
the brush-wood and tall grass. The egg is, according to Mr. 
Kuschel, white and measures 0°6 x 0°43. 
Pytelia lineata. 
Pytelia lineata, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 17 Dembea; Sharpe, Cat. 
B. M. xiii. p. 301 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 437 (1896); 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 162 (1904). 
“ Fringilla polyzona, Wiirt.,” Heugl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 303. 
Male. Very like P. phanicoptera ; but differs in the bill being red, and 
in the present specimen the under tail-coverts are mostly white. Total 
length 4:7 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2°3, tail 1‘6, tarsus 0°65. 12. 1. 99. 
Chercher Lake (Lovat). 
Female. Differs from the male in being duller, browner, and obsoletely 
barred on the breast. Upper parts brown, with some rufous-shaded scarlet, 
confined to the outer edges of the quills, upper tail-coverts and tail; sides of 
the head, neck and under parts generally brownish ash, fading into white 
on the lower chest and abdomen, and with indistinct buff bars; most of the 
under tail-coverts buff. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2:3, tail 
1-5, tarsus 0°6. ¢g, 21. 3.99. Didera (Lovat). Neither of these birds are 
in full adult plumage, and in both the iris was brown, which is probably a 
sign of immaturity, for it should be red in adults. 
