1888. J FROM EaUATORIAL AFRICA. 31 



Iris and bill red, culmen blackish ; legs flesh-brown. 



In the British Museum are apparently typical specimens of both 

 sexes of P. cinereiffula ; the female is a female of this species and the 

 male is P. nfra (Gm.). 



69. Pytelia phcf.nicoptera, Swains. 



Pytelia phcenicoptera, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. viii. 

 1882, p. 203 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. 



Zonogustris erythroptera, Pelz. Verb. Wien, xxxii. 1882, p. 509. 

 No. 385. 6- Lado, Aug. 16, 1884. 

 Iris red ; bill black ; legs pale brown. 



70. Lagonosticta senegala (Linn.). 



Lagonosticta minima, Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxi. 1881, p. 606. 

 Lagonosticta senegala, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. 

 No. 182. (S. Kibero, Oct. 7, 1886. 



71. Lagonosticta rara (Antin.). 



Rhodopijga hypomelas, Heugl. J. f. O. 1868, p. 13, pi. 1. 

 fig. 4. 



Habropyga hypomelcBna, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 611. 



Habropyga cenochroa, Hartl. J. f. O. 1882, p. 322; id. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. viii, 1882, p. 203. 



Layonostirta rara, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. 



Lagonosticta cenochroa, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 322, 

 pi. 13. fig. 6. 



Ad. Lado, Oct. 24, 1885. 



No. 15. c?. Tingasi, Aug. 9, 1883. 



No. 175. $. Tingasi, July .3, 1883. 



I have referred this species to L. rara (Antin.), although I have 

 not examined a typical specimen ; but it appears to me to be un- 

 doubtedly the same as L. cenochroa, Hartl., which, under the im- 

 pression that it was the type I had examined, I wrongly referred to 

 L. rhodopareia (Ibis, 1886, p. 324). L. rara has been badly 

 figured by Heugiin under the name of Rhodopyga hypomelas, but 

 the sides of the body have been painted black instead of red as 

 described, and this appears to be the only character upon which L. 

 cenochroa, Hartl., has been separated. 



The real characters for tliis species appear to be : — the pale 

 patch on the lower mandible, most strongly marked in specimens 15 

 and 17.5, and the absence of white spots on the sides of the chest 

 in adult males. 



To this species should undoubtedly be referred the L. melano- 

 gastra of my paper in 'The Ibis,' 1883, p. 153, from Lukoja on the 

 Niger. 



72. ESTRELDA NONNULA, Hartl. 



Astrilda nonnula, Hartl. J. f. O. 1883, p. 425 ; id. Zool. Jahrb. 

 i. 1886, p. 321, pi. 13. fig. 5. 



