1918.] the Birds of the Anylo-Egijijtiun Sudan. 447' 



Bahr el Ghazal. Emiu's birds from west of Albert Nyauza, 

 referred to this species by Shelley, are really N. ansoryei. 



Lagonosticta melanogastra. 



Lagonosticta melanogastra Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 273 : 

 Djur, B.G. ; Shelley, B. A. iv. p. 2-17. 

 Hahropyga vara Antiu. Cat. 1864, p. 72. 

 [B. coll.] 2 Kajo Kaji Mch. L.E. 



Lagonosticta rufopicta. 

 . Estrilda rufopicta Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 27 : Gold Coast. 

 Lagonosticta rufopicta (Fraser) ; Shelley, H. A. iv. p. 262. 

 [B. coll.] 1 Bor May, 1 Kenisa Jan. Mon. ; 1 Kajo Kaji 

 Mch., 1 S. of Hejaf Apl. L.E. 



Lagonosticta senegala brunneiceps. 



Lagonosticta brunneiceps Sharpe, Cat. Bds. B. M. xiii. 

 1890, p. 277 : Maragaz ; Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 320, 1909, 

 p. 78. 



Lagonosticta senegala erythreae Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, 

 p. 349 : Ad arte. 



[B. coll.] 1 Gedaref May, Kas. ; 1 Khartoum Nov.; 



1 Wau Apl. B.G. 



[C. & L. coll.] 1 Singa Dec, 2 Kamisa Dec. Sen.; 



2 Jebel Ahmed Agha Jan. U.N. 



The type of L. brunneiceps Sharpe is a bird collected 

 at Maragaz in Eritrea by Jesse and is so marked in 

 Dr. Sharpens writing, though not so mentioned in the 

 printed Catalogue of Birds. It is undoubtedly identical 

 with Neumann^s subspecies which was obtained in the same 

 district. 



The birds in the Butler collection from Gedaref and 

 Khartoum, as well as those in the Chapman & Lynes col- 

 lection, appear to be referable to this form. The specimen 

 from the Bahr el Ghazal is a female and cannot be satisfac- 

 torily determined; but there are two other examples in the 

 British Museum from the Bahr el Jebel, and they certainly 

 seem to differ from those of the northern Sudan in their 

 browner backs aud in having much less red on the top of the 



