Birds from Sou/fiern Ahyssinia. 5G9 



39. AmADINA ALEXANDER!. 



; Amadina fasciata alexanderi Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. xxiii. 

 p. 43 (1908). 



Alexander's Bibbon-Finch was met with at Lake Helene 

 on the 14th of February. It will be remembered that 

 the late Boyd Alexander separated this Abyssinian form 

 from the paler sandy-coloured bird from West Africa, 

 figured in Brown's ' Illustrations of Zoology/ p. 04, pi. 

 fig. 1 (1776); but he unfortunately renamed the latter bird 

 [cf. Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 104 (1907)], a mistake which 

 Professor Neumann subsequently corrected. 



40. Pytelia soudanensis. 



Pytelia soudanensis Sliarpe ; Shelley, iv. pp. 273, 274 

 (1905) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 292 (1910). 



A male and female of the Sudan Pytelia were procured at 

 the north end of Lake Stefanic in August. 



41. Pytelia afka. 



Pytelia afra (Gmel.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 269 (1905). 



Two males and a female of the Grey-necked Pytelia were 

 collected in Konso on the 27th of August. One of the 

 males is an immature bird with only a few scarlet feathers 

 on the sides of the head and throat and no orange band on 

 the low^er part of the chest. 



42. Neisna quahtinia. 



Coccopygia quartinen (Bonap.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 236 (1905). 



Neisna dufresneiji qaartirda Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 350. 



Some examples of this Waxbill, procured by Zaphiro, 

 are much brighter than any of the specimens in the British 

 INluseum, having a conspicuous cinnamon-yellow patch on 

 the middle of the breast. It was met with in the Mana- 

 gasha Forest, and to the west at Urguessa and Gamu, in the 

 Charada Forest, Kaffa, and in Kullo. 



43. HyPOCH.ERA ULTRAMARINA. 



Hypochera ultramarina {Gmel.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 8 (1905). 

 The Ultramarine Coiiibasou was met Avith at Dildila, near 

 Addis Abbaba, and southwards at Ulm, Baku, and Baroda. 



