LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
45. Textor niger (Smith), Zool. S. Af. pi. 64 ; ( Textor erythro - 
rhynchus , Smith.) 
46. Vidua regia. 
47. Plocepasser mahali, Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 65 ; {Leucophrys 
pileatus , Swains.). 
48. Ploceus abyssinicus , Gm. ; Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 7 ; ( Euplectes 
taka , Smith.) 
49. Ploceus sanguinirostris (Linn.). 
50. Philetcerus squamifrons (Smith), Zool. S. Af. pi. 95. 
51. Estrilda granatina (Linn.). 
52. Estrilda lipiniana , Smith, Report Exped. S. Af. p. 49. 
53. Estrilda astrild (Linn.). The specimen from Damara is 
rather paler on the upper parts and tail than specimens in Sir 
William Jardine’s collection from S. Africa, and in my own from 
Mauritius. 
54. Pytelia melba (Linn.); Edw. Birds, pi. 128; Buff, pi- ®nl- 
203, /. 1 ; Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 25 ; Fringilla elegans, Gm. ; 
Fringilla speciosa , Boddaert. 
There has been much confusion between this species, which seems 
to inhabit Southern and South-Western Africa, and the species 
figured by Edwards, pi. 272, lower figure, from Abyssinia, Kordofan, 
and Senegal. The present bird is evidently the same as plate 1- 0 
Edwards, upon which Linnaeus, in his 10th edition of the js ema 
Naturae, founded his Fringilla melba , though afterwards 11 0I ’ 
and Linnaeus himself in his 12th edition, united with it 
pi. 272, lower figure, an error followed by most succee au 
The first author who in modern times has distinguished 1 ese 
species is I believe the Prince of Canino, in his Conspectus e 
Avium, p. 461, where he gives their respective diagnoses, 
neously assigns the specific name melba to the species o 
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