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49. ESTRILDA PEASEI. 



Estrilda peasei Shelley, Bull. B.O. C. xiii. p. 74 (1903) ; 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907, p. 584. 



Pease^s Waxbill was met with iu the ^Nlanagasha Forest, on 

 Mevgeta Mountain, at Nono, in the Charada Forest in Kaffa, 

 and in Kullo at altitudes varying from 3G0O to 6800 ft. It 

 is easily distinguished from E. minor by having the rose flush 

 continued up to the white throat and the middle of the 

 chest devoid of bars. After separating this form Shelley 

 subsequently united it with E. occidentalis Fraser & Jardine, 

 which is a very different bird with the white chest merely 

 tinged with rose and the patch round the eye orange-scarlet 

 instead of crimson-scarlet. 



50. Estrilda charmosyna. 



Estrilda charmosyna (Reich.) ; Shelley, iv. p. 232 (1905), 



Estrilda nigrimentum Salvad. ; Ogilvie-Grant & lleid, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 619. 



Shelley was no doubt right in regarding the above names 

 as synonymous. The type of E. chai-tnosyna was obtained 

 at Berbera, and I have examined specimens in the British 

 Museum procured by Mr. E. M. Hawker at Hargeisa and Jifa 

 Medir, which lie just to the soutli, and from the Goolis 

 Mts., collected by G. W. Bury; the type of E. nigri- 

 mentum was described by Salvadori from Shoa and I have 

 examined birds from Tadejemulka and Owaramulka, both in 

 Shoa, which do not differ from specimens from Berbera. 



The present collection includes a male from Lake Zwai 

 and a female from Lake Rudolf. The Black-faced Waxbill 

 appears to be a rare bird and is seldom procured. 



51. Spor.eginthus ochrogaster, 



Estrilda ochrogaster Salvad.; Shelley, iv. p. 217(1005); 

 Erlanger, J. f. O. 1907, p. 21. 



Sporaginthus margar-itce Blundell &: Lovat ; Ogilvie-Grant, 

 Ibis, 1900, p. 130, pi. iii. fig. 1. 



fijjorcpginthus ochrogaster Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907. 

 p. 583. 



