59 [Vol. xxi, 



crimson. The upperside is roe-brown without any grey 

 shadCj and the crimson colour of the underside lighter and 

 more brilliant. Bill entirely slate-grey. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having an olive- 

 brown head without any rosy or crimson wash, but with a 

 crimson patch between the bill and the eye ; and the underside 

 brown, more or less washed with pink. Wing 46-51 mm. 



Hab. Angola, from Pungo Andongo to South Benguella. 



Type in the Tring Museum : c? • Kabisombo River near 

 Quillengues, Benguella, l.ii. 05 : W. J. Ansorge coll. 



Obs. This was the only form of the group, except the true 

 L. rhodopareia from N. Abyssinia, with a roe-brown upper- 

 side. L. r. congica, Sharpe, from the Upper Congo and Lake 

 Region (=L. ugandce, Salvad.), and all other forms of the 

 group had the upperside dark olive-brown, more or less 

 shaded with slaty-grey [cf. Orn. Monatsber. xv. pp. 167-168 

 (1907)]. 



The group of Lagonosticta with black under tail-coverts 

 seemed to be a difficult one to deal with, as sometimes 

 two forms occurred side by side, viz., L. r. ansorgei and 

 L. landancB in Angola, and L. r. h(Bmatocephala and 

 L.jamesoni in German East Africa. 



ZOSTEROPS ABYSSINICA SOCOTRANA, Subsp. n. 



Adult male and female. Very similar to Z. a. abyssinica, 

 but distinguished by the dark, almost blackish bill and dark 

 feet, these parts being flesh-coloured in Z. a. abyssinica ; the 

 underside is whiter. 



Hab. Sokotra. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Dahamis, Sokotra, 

 20. xii. 98 : Ogilvie-Grant and Forbes coll."^. 



* [The soft parts of Zosterops abyssinica from Sokotra are recorded in 

 the flesh as follows : " bill and le^rs greyish-brown, with a whitish mark 

 at the base of the lower mandible " {Oyilvie-Grant). 



Z. abyssinica from South Abyssinia has the soft parts recorded in the 

 flesh as " bill and legs dark brown " (Lovat) or " bill olive-green, feet 

 tinged with greenish" {Deyen). — Ed.] 



