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Iris hazel ; bill pink ; legs and feet horn-coloured. All 
five specimens are in winter plumage. 
[The Ethiopian Red-billed Weaver-Finch is very common 
south of Kaka and goes in flocks along with. Hyphantornis 
taeniopterus. — R. M. H.] 
12. Lagonosticta brunneiceps. 
Lagonosticta hrunneice'ps Sharpe; Grant, Ibis, 1901, p. 617. 
a. % . Goz-Abu-Gumar, 16th May. No. 477. 
5, c. S imm. et ? . Ed-Duem, 22nd May. Nos. 539, 
540. 
Iris crimson ; bill crimson, ridge of culmen and suture of 
lower mandible black ; legs flesh-coloured. 
[The Brown-capped Fire-Finch was not common ; I never 
noticed it south of Goz-Abu-Gumar. — H. M. H.] 
13. Pyteha soudanensis. 
Zonogastris soudanensis Sharpe ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xiii. p. 298 (1890). 
a. 2 . Ed-Duem, 22nd May. No. 541. 
Iris light reddish brown; bill flesh-coloured, darker at tip; 
legs and feet flesh-coloured. 
It is difficult to be certain that this identification is 
correct. Both Pytelia soudanensis (Sharpe) and the allied 
P. citerior Strickl. occur in the White Nile Valley, and the 
females are apparently almost identical in appearance : 
possibly that of P. citerior has the sides and flanks more 
heavily barred. 
[The Red-faced Finch was only met with on a few occasions 
in the neighbourhood of Ed-Duem. — R. M. H.] 
14. SPORiEGINTHUS SUBPLAVUS. 
Sporaeginthus subflavus (Vieill.) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 130. 
a. ? . 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 19th Mar. No. 146. 
b,c, (^ ? . Fashoda, 26th Mar. Nos. 206, 207. 
d-q, S ? ad. et imm. Fashoda, 28th Mar. Nos. 215-227. 
, r. ? 20 miles N. of Fashoda, 13th April. No. 340. 
s-u. S imm. et ? ? . Kaka, 6th May. Nos. 439-441. 
Iris crimson ; sides of bill crimson, black along the culmen ; 
legs flesh-coloured. 
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