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h-r. 6 et <j ? imm. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 6000-7000 ft., llth-16th March. 

 [Nos. 1332, 1333, 1339, 1354. D. C. ■ 2203. G. L.; 3200, 3223, 3224, 3228, 3229. 

 R. B. W.~\ 



Adult male. Iris dark brown or dark hazel ; bill black and red ; feet black. 



Curiously enough, the above series of seventeen specimens does not include a single 

 adult female ; the latter differs from the male in having the underparts greyer. 



[Hartlaub's Black-crowned Waxbill was met with everywhere throughout the 

 journey, except in the Eturi Forest. It was a common species on the mountains up 

 to an elevation of 7000 ft., and in company with many other species of small Weaver- 

 Finches was to be seen in thousands feeding upon the native crops of millet.— 

 R. B. W.] 



Spor^ginthus subflavus (Vieill.). 

 Estrilda subflava Keich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 186 (1904) [part] ; Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 207 (1905). 

 Sporceginthus subflavus Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 275 [Mufumbiro Volcanoes]. 



a. 2 . N. Ruwenzori, 3500 ft., 19th Aug. [No. 3551. R. B. W.] 



b. <j . Lower Semliki Valley, 2500 ft., 11th Oct. [No. 3625. R. B. W.~] 

 Adult male. Iris scarlet ; bill scarlet ; feet light brown. 



Adult female. Iris bright orange ; bill pink; feet pale flesh-colour. 



The male (b) of the Northern Zebra-Waxbill is a very brilliantly coloured specimen, 

 rather more so than any example in the British Museum. 



[The species was met with only to the north-west of Ruwenzori. between the Semliki 

 River and Irumu. — R. B. TV.] 



Lagonosticta ruberrima Reichenow. 



Lagonosticta brunneiceps ruberrima Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 198 (1904). 



Lagonosticta brunneiceps Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 258 (1905) [part.]. 



Lagonosticta ruberrima Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 564 [Toro] ; Grant, Ibis, 1908, p. 271 [S.W. 

 Uganda; Lake Edward ; Lake Tanganyika]. 

 a. 6 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 26th April. [No. 3284. R. B. W.] 

 b-i. 8 2 et d imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 2nd-26th May. [Nos. 1562. 



.d. d. 



1563. I). C. ; 3309, 3336, 3350, 3366, 3416, 3421. R. B. W.\ 



k-m. 6 2 et 6 imm. Mokia. S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft.. 10th-25th June. [Nos. 1688. 

 D. C. ; 3462, 3466. R. B. W.] 



Adult male and female. Iris hazel, reddish-brown, or chestnut; bill pink or dull 



pink ; feet brown or dark brown. 



This darker Equatorial form of the Brown-capped Fire-Finch (L. brunneiceps Sharpe) 

 appears to be a fairly well-marked form. I have already referred to it in the paper 

 on Mr. Douglas Carruthers's collection published in ' The Ibis,' as quoted above. 



