266 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
chinned specimens form a different species is questionable. Ina collection of birds from 
Benguela, made by Dr. Welwitsch, I saw white-chinned specimens, but also specimens 
which showed in the extreme angle of the chin some black feathers. Very likely this 
difference is only a sign of age or season. Otherwise there is not the slightest difference, 
either in size or coloration; young birds are in every respect inseparable. 
Linneus’s Emberiza principalis (Syst. Nat. p. 313) refers to the white-chinned form, 
which was renamed by Dr. Hartlaub V. decora (Ibis, 1862, p. 340).—O. F. 
[Iris dark brown; beak orange; legs and feet black. 
The only four specimens I procured were in July, and single birds at Kokai at the 
end of June. IJsaw a small flock. I did not meet with this bird anywhere else during 
my stay in the country.— W. J.| 
Fam. FRINGILLID. 
127. Haproryea RHoDoPYGA (Sundev. ). 
Estrelda rhodopyga, Sund. Ofvr. Akad. Férh. 1850, p. 126. 
rhodoptera (! laps. cal.), Bp. Consp. p. 459. 
Habropyga frenata, Ehrb. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 169. 
Estreida leucotis, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 29. 
—— frenata, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 8. 
a. 2. Bejook. July 17 (no. 829). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
1 10" yt gm 3am 6! 
A rare species. Von Heuglin obtained a single pair in the vicinity of Keren, in the 
Bogos country, and named them Estrelda leucotis. I have inspected the type specimens. 
Drs. Hemprich and Ehrenberg collected the species in Abyssinia and Nubia; Professor 
Hedenborg in Sennaar.—0. F. 
[Beak nearly black; legs blue-grey. 
The only specimen procured of this species.—W. J.] 
128. UR&GINTHUS PH@NICOTIS (Sws.). 
_Estrilda bengalus (! L.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 77. no. 275; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 396. 
Ureginthus phenicotis, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 166. 
Pytelia phenicotis, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostaf. p. 447. 
a. d. Senafé. May 22 (no. 9438), 
6. 2. Senafé. May 22 (no. 939). 
Q. Senafé. May 22 (no. 1725). 
Senafé. May 22 (no. 1684). 
. Senafé. May 25. 
Goon Goona. May 9. 
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