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136. Penthetriopsis niacrura (Gm.) 

 Ntuti (Singo), Uganda, and Eldoma Ravine (Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate). A young bird from Masindi (Unyoro) probably 

 belongs to this species as well. 



137. Fenthetria eqnes (Hartl.) 

 Muani and Mto-ya-mkiiynni (Ukamba), British East Africa. 

 " Bill light blue." 



138. Coliuspasser ardens concolor Cass. 

 Specimens from Masindi in Unyoro (wing 75 to 76 mm.) 



have no sign of a red patch on the foreneck. 



139. Lagonosticta bi'wineiceps Sharpe. 



Four adult males, one immature male, and one female, from 

 Masindi (Unyoro), Kibero (Unyoro), Kampala (Uganda), and 

 Kibwezi (British East Africa), must, geographically, belong to 

 L. brimneiceps ; on the other hand, however, some of them are 

 as red above as L. senegala. It is possible that even among the 

 forms from N.E. Africa to Transvaal, to all of which Sharpe 

 applies the name L. brwineiceps, there exist several forms. Un- 

 fortunately Dr. Sharpe did not say which of all these he would 

 have regarded as the type, no specimen being marked type (see 

 Cat. B. xiii. pp. 277, 278). In Nov. Zool. v. p. 72 I named the 

 form from the Upper Shire River L. Senegala rendalli, but I now 

 doubt its distinctness from L. brunneiceps Sharpe (in his wide 

 sense). By a mistake the length of the wing of rendalli has 

 been given as 42 mm., it should have been 47. The wings of 

 Dr. Ansorge's males measure 49 to 50 mm. 



Dr. Sharpe and Prof. Reichenow are apparently also at 

 variance with regard to L. brunneiceps, the former restricting 

 L. senegala to Senegambia, the latter calling specimens from 

 Kakoma, Udjiji, and Bukoba L. senegala, others from Kakoma (?), 

 Kingani, Bagamoyo, Tabora, Usambara, Karema, &c., L. brun- 

 neiceps. This can hardly be right ; for it is, in my opinion, most 

 unlikely that L. senegala and L. brunneiceps are well defined 

 species , they are probably sub-species. My nndalli is perhaps a 

 smaller and somewhat brighter form, if separable from brun- 

 neiceps. 



