75 [Vol. xiii. 



(Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 156), and to this form belongs Habro- 

 pyga minor, Cab. (J. f. O. 1878, p. 229). Some of the 

 specimens of this race from Equatorial Africa I cannot 

 distinguish from other Natal specimens, although, as a 

 rule, they are fairly recognizable. In Southern Abyssinia, 

 both Lord Lovat and Mr. Alfred E. Pease have procured 

 specimens of what I call E. peasei. 



11 ESTRILDA PEASEI, n. Sp. 



" $ . Similar to E. occidentalis, from which it differs in 

 the absence of scarlet on the breast ; lower throat and centre 

 of the breast, down to the abdomen, rosy pink ; cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, and upper throat pure white. Total length 

 4*6 inches, culmen 0*35, wing 2*0, tarsus 055. Jeffi Dunsa, 

 Dec. 28, 1900. 



" E. occidentalis ranges southward to the Zambesi and 

 into Angola. In the latter country it appears gradually to 

 assume the plumage of E. rubriventris (Vieill.), fide Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 393, which plumage is apparently never 

 so fully developed to the south of the Congo as in Loango 

 and Gaboon. For the Loango form Dr. Reichenow has 

 proposed the name E. astrild angolensis (Orn. Monatsb. 

 1902, p. 173). 



" COCCOPYGIA CLARKEI, n. Sp. 



" Similar to C. subflava (Vieill.), from which it differs in 

 the entire throat and centre of the breast being paler yellow, 

 with, at most, a slight wash of orange on the crop. Total 

 length 3*8 inches, culmen - 3, wing L8, tail 1*4, tarsus - 45. 

 $. Dec. 8th, 1881, Richmond Road, Natal (Reid). 



" The female differs from the male in having no red band 

 on the sides of the head, less red on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; throat and centre of breast buffy white, with a 

 faint lemon shade on the breast and a shade of orange on 

 under tail-coverts. Wing 1*7 inch. Sept. 1 5, 1881, Newcastle 

 {Reid). 



" I have named the present bird after Major Stephenson 

 R. Clarke, whose collection and notes from S. Africa have 

 convinced me that the specimens from Eastern Africa, south 

 " the Equator, are distinct from C. subflava (Vieill.). 



