from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 
12 7 
24. Lagonosticta brunneiceps. 
Lagonosticta brunneiceps Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 
p. 2 77 (1890). 
a. A- Harrar, Abyssinia, 27 December, 1898. (No. 41.) 
b. S» Laga Hardim, Abyssinia, 14 January, 1899. 
(No. 192.) 
Iris bright orange or red; bill deep red, black on the 
culmen, along the cutting-margins, and the suture of the 
mandibles; legs dark brown. 
[This small Finch feeds on the ground in small flocks ; it 
inhabits the lower valleys. The white dots on the breast 
were not observed on more than one or two birds in every 
flock.—L.] 
25. Lagonosticta congica. 
Lagonosticta congica Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 280, 
pi. xi. fig. 3 (1890). 
a. $ . Lake Chercher, Abyssinia, 11 January, 1899. 
(No. 162.) 
b. S- Jawaha, Abyssinia, 21 February, 1899. (No. 336.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs black. 
We have referred the specimens to this species with 
some doubt; both birds are much injured by shot, specimen b 
lacking the entire tail, a has the back darker brown, more 
like that of the type of L. congica i but without the grey shade, 
the lores, chin, throat, and breast reddish brown strongly 
washed with pink, and the forehead and crown deep ash- 
grey. b has the upper parts brighter and of a more rufous 
brown, the lores, superciliary stripe, chin, and fore-neck 
dull pink, and the forehead and cheeks strongly washed with 
the same colour; the rest of the underparts brown, with 
scarcely a trace of pink. 
[Occasionally met with in Southern Shoa.—L.] 
26. Lagonosticta larvata. 
Amadina larvata Biipp. Neue Wirbelth., Vog. p. 97, pi. 36. 
fig. 1 (1835). 
Lagonosticta larvata Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 286 
(1890). 
