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Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 
a, $ . July, Bejook. b, $ . June, Sobat. c. July, Swazi. 
cl. September, Matabele ( Shelley Mas.). 
13. Ortygospiza. 
Type. 
1850. Ortygospiza, Sundev. (E£v. af Vet.-Ak. 
Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 98. O. poly zona. 
I have not been able to examine a sufficient number of 
good specimens from N.E. Africa, and suspect that the two 
N.E.-African forms will be found to differ from the S.- 
African bird; if so, the species with the white round the eye 
will stand as Ortygospiza fuscocrissa, Heugl., for Fringilla 
multizona is nothing but an error in Des Murs^s quotation 
from Temminck. The white circle round the eye is, how¬ 
ever, no reliable character. 
Key to the Species. 
a. Chin white and a white hand round the eye. 70. O. iwlyzona. 
b. With no white on the head. 71*. 0. atricollis. 
70. Ortygospiza polyzona. 
Fringilla poly zona, Temm. PI. Col. 1823, pi. 221. fig. 3. 
?“ Fringilla multizona, Temm.” (error), Des Murs, in Le- 
febvre's Yoy. Abyss. 1840-45, p. 117. 
? Estrelda polyzona, Des Murs, tom. cit. p. 173. 
1 Amadina polyzona, Biipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 77. 
Ortygospiza polyzona, Sundev. (Efv. af Vet.-Ak. Forh. 
Stockh. 1850, p. 98. 
? Ortygospiza fuscocrissa, Hartl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 18, 
Dembea, Tigrd. 
? Ortygospiza atricollis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871, 
p. 598 (part.). 
Hab. (N.E. ?) S. and W. Afr. In Abyssinia and Shoa 
this, or probably a closely allied species, is found. It has 
not been recorded from E. Africa, and in S. and W. Africa 
it has only been mentioned from Matabele, Transvaal, Natal, 
and Angola. 
a, ? . June, b, ? . October, Newcastle, c, ? . July, 
Pinetown, Natal ( Shelley Mus.). In specimen c there is no 
