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smaller bird, with the bill smaller, wings (males) 83 — 87 mm., and the oinnanion 

 bases of the outer primaries show well in front of the under wing-coverts. U. 

 axillaris mechowi inhabits the valley of the Quanza River in Angola, where it 

 has been found at Barraca, Cunga, Malanje, Colombo, also northwards at 

 Duque de Braganza. This bird is closely allied to bocagei but larger, bill larger, 

 wing 94 — 99 mm. ; the lesser wing-coverts seem to vary, and in our two speci- 

 mens (only one — ^not two as Shelley said — collected at Barraca by Pemberton, 

 and one shot at Cunga by Ansorge) they are rather brighter orange than is 

 bocagei, but more yellowish in the specimen in the British Museum frcm Colcmbo. 

 I have now no doubt that these forms are subspecies, not only of phoenicea, 

 but also of axillaris. The idea of Shelley, that this form ranges to Karungwesi 

 on the Kolongatsi, which runs into Lake Meru, and to Uganda, remains to be 

 proven. It is not possible to identify specimens in winter dress with absolute 

 certainty, therefore Karungwesi remains doubtful, and of the occurrence in 

 Uganda I know nothing. 



130. Diatropura progne ansorgei Neum. = Diatropura progne ansorgei. 



Diatropura progne ansorgei Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 45 (1908 — Angola and Benguella), 



Type: 3 ad., Bulu-bulu, Bihe, Angola, 3.x. 1&04. No. t 169. W. J. 

 Ansorge leg. 



It is strange that this strikingly different form had not been noticed before. 



131. Steganura paradisea aucnpum Neum. = Steganura paradisea aucupum. 



Steganura paradisea aucwfnum Neumann, BuU. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 43 (January 1908 — " Upper Guinea, 

 especially Senegambia "). 



Type : <? ad., Diourbel, Senegal Colony, 8. x. 1907. F. W. Riggenbach 

 leg. No. 1638. 



In the original description the date is given as " 8. viii. 1907," but the 

 specimen is marked " Oct." and October is the tenth month of the year. 



132. Hypargos harterti Shell. = Lagonosticta nitidula harterti. 



Hypargos harterti Shelley, Bull. B.O, Club, xiv. p, 30 (Dec. 1903— new name for Lagonosticta nitidula 

 Hartl. 1886). 



Type: 3 ad., Sagua, Quanza River, Angola, 21. v. 1901. C. Hubert 

 Pemberton leg. 



There is no necessity to reject the name nitidula of 1886, as " Estrelda 

 nitidula " Hartlaub, 1865, is not congeneric with his Lagonosticta nitidula of 

 1886. This has already been stated by Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 682, but it 

 is not, as Bannerman has it, the " attenuated extremity of the first primary " 

 (more correctly the second !) which separates " Hypargos " from Lagonosticta, 

 but on the contrary the fact that in Hypargos it is not attenuated ! The attenua- 

 tion of the second primary, moreover, is, though very remarkable, not found 

 in all species of Lagonosticta of Shelley and there are intermediate forms. The 

 genera can therefore by no means be grouped as Shelley has done it, and Hypargos 

 and Lagonosticta cannot be separated by the shape of the second primary, and 

 thus Lagonosticta nitidula Hartl. 1886 must remain in the genus Lagonosticta. 

 On the other hand, Estrdda nitidula Hartl. 1865 differs very much by the short- 



