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DESCRIPTIONS OF THREE NEW 
Average measurements of three adult male topotypes. — Wing, 
46*7 ; tail, 44*7 ; cnlmen (chord), 9*7 ; tarsus, 18-3. 
Measurements of adult female (Cat. No. 118,268, Taveta, 
British East Africa, Dr. W. L. Abbott). — Wing, 44 ; tail, 43 ; 
culmen (chord), 9*6 ; tarsus, 13. 
Geographical range. — Interior of British East Africa, from 
Kapiti Plains to Taveta. 
Remarks. — The young of this subspecies have been described 
by Oberholser. 1 
The subspecies of Estrilda rhodopyga (Sundevall) are as 
follows : 
1. Estrilda rhodopyga rhodopyga, C. J. Sundevall, Ofversigt 
af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, Arg. VII, 
No. 5, for May 1850, p. 126. Type locality : North-East 
Africa (Hedenborg coll.). 
2. Estrilda rhodopyga polia, new subspecies. Type locality : 
Gato River, near Gardulla, Southern Abyssinia. 
3. Estrilda rhodopyga hypochra, new subspecies. Type 
locality : Kapiti Plains, British East Africa. 
4. Estrilda rhodopyga centralis, Konrad Kothe, Ornith. 
Monatsb., XIX., No. 4, April 1911, p. 70. Type locality : 
Kissenje, north shore of Lake Albert, Uganda. 
5. Estrilda rhodopyga Frommi, Konrad Kothe, Ornith. 
Monatsb., XIX., No. 4, April 1911, p. 70. Type locality : 
Karema, Lake Tanganyika. 
Granatina Ian thing gas tea Roosevelti, 2 new subspecies 
(Roosevelt’s Cordon-bleu) 
Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 214,634, U.S. National 
Museum ; collected on the Southern Guaso Nyiro River, 
Sotik District, British East Africa, June 14, 1909, by Edgar 
A. Mearns. (Original number, 16,045.) 
Characters. — Larger than Granatina ianthinogastra ianthino - 
gastra or G. i. Hawkeri. Males, compared with typical ianthino- 
gastra from the Tana River, British East Africa, are decidedly 
1 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. XXVIII., No. 1411, July 8, 1905, p. 880. 
2 Named in honour of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, leader of the Smithsonian 
African Expedition. 
