148 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 



but (one especially.) are badly worn and rather difficult to name. His ahayensis 

 is evidently a distinct form, and his erythreae much paler. In the same year, 

 however, Shelley (B. Africa, iv. i. pp. 258, 259) informed us which was Sharpe's 

 type, i.e. a bird collected by Jesse at Maragaz in Northern Abyssinia. If the 

 .type locality had been fixed before, Shelley's statement would have been of 

 no avail, as one could not have proved whether the label had been marked as 

 type in 1890 or later, but as that had not been done, Shelley's action must be 

 followed. Therefore L. s. erythreae is a synonym of brunneiceps (s.s.). In 

 Zedlitz's list therefore erythreae must be eliminated, and probably " carlo," said 

 to inhabit the ^Hawash Valley and North SomaUland, is also identical with 

 brunneiceps^ at least I cannot see the differences described by ZedUtz. The 

 South African form, which Zedlitz called brunneiceps, thus restricting, but too 

 late, that name to the southern form, is probably not separable from rendalU, 

 but more material is necessary to decide this finally. 



137. Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansoigei Neum. = Lagonosticta rhodopareia 



ansorgei. 



Lagonosticta rhodopareia ansorgei Nevunann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxi. p, 58 (Febr. 1908 — ^Angola). 



Type : S ad., Kabisombo River, Quillenges, Benguella, i. ii. 1905. W. J. 

 Ansorge leg. No. 364. 



138. Estrilda paludicola benguellensis Neum. = Estrilda paludicola bengudlensis. 

 Estrilda paludicola benguettenais Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 96 (May 1908 — Benguella). 

 Type : 3, Que River, Benguella, 14. i. 1906. W. J. Ansorge leg. 



139. Amandina fasciata alexanderi Neum. ?= Amandina fasciata alexanderi. 



Amandina fasciata alexanderi Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 43 (Dec. 1908 — " East Africa 

 from North Abyssinia, through Shoa and SomaUland, to German East Africa "), 



Type : <? ad., Waram, Hawash River, Shoa, 9. vi. 1903. P. Zaphiro leg. 



TAITAGBIDAE. 



t 140. Nemosia rosenbergi Rothsch. = Hemithraupis {Erythrothlypis) 



salmoni (Scl.). 

 Nemosia rosenbergi Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, xii. p. vi. (Oct. 1897 — Cachab6, N,W. Ecuador), 



Type : tJ ad., Cachab6, 500 ft., 13. xi. 1896, W. F. H. Rosenberg leg. No. 28. 



The male with its scarlet upperside is a very striking, beautiful bird. No- 

 body could, when Mr. Rosenberg had discovered it, imagine that the dull 

 yellowish olive " Dacnis salmoni " of Sclater would be the same species. Never- 

 theless it is so. In NoviTATES Zoologicae, 1898, p. 484, I had said already 

 that possibly " Dacnis salmoni " might be the female of the same, or a 

 closely allied form. Count Berlepsch having explained to me in the British 

 Museum, that it was not a Dacnis at all, but what we then called Nemosia. This 

 was proved beyond doubt by Hellmayr, Novttates Zoologicae, 1906, p. 317, 

 and Proc. Zool. 8oc. London, 1911, vol. ii. pp. 1116, 1117. Cf. also Berlepsch, 

 Verh, V. Int. Orn. Kongress, p. 1081, where salmoni has been made the type 



