BIRDS COLLECTED IN THE BELGIAN CONGO 765 
parative Zodlogy, but is darker, particularly on the top of the head, which is 
almost solid black. The breast and throat are abundantly streaked with black, 
but unlike the other bird, the flanks are unstreaked, and the broad superciliary 
stripes are light buffy whitish. The specimen is in fresh plumage. Measure- 
ments are as follows: wing 52.5; tail 28.5; culmen, from the base 11.5 mm. 
Pyrenestes ostrinus rothshildi Neumann 
Pyrenestes ostrinus rothshildi Neumann, Journ. f. Orn., 1910, p. 528: Warri, 8. Nigeria. 
Juvenile male, Budja-lia, 26 December 1926. 
This specimen is in the brownish plumage of immaturity with reddish only 
on the tail and upper tail-coverts. There is a slight indication of red on the 
sides of the upper throat. In identifying this bird to subspecies I follow Chapin 
(Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 1924, pp. 415-441) as it is obviously impossible to 
tell races from immature birds. The measurements of the specimen are: wing 
57; tail 45; culmen, from base 10.5 mm. Measuring the bill in the manner in- 
dicated by Chapin (loc. cit., p. 418) I find the width of the mandible to be 11.5 
and the bill from the nostril to be 8.0 mm. 
Quelea sanguinirostris sanguinirostris (Linné) 
Loxia sanguinirostris Linné, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, p. 173: Senegal. 
Female, Lulenga, 2 March 1927. 
This specimen is slightly darker than a female from Butiaba, Lake Albert, 
Uganda (type locality of Q. s. centralis van Someren), and has a somewhat 
smaller bill. On examining birds from western and central Africa I find that the 
characters given by van Someren for centralis (Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl., xli, 1921, 
p. 122) hold fairly well. The present bird is intermediate in coloration between 
typical sangwinirostris and centralis. 
Spermestes poensis stigmatophorus Reichenow 
Spermestes stigmatophorus Reichenow, Orn. Ges., iv, 1891, p. 4: Bukoba, west of Victoria Nyanza. 
Male, Bumba, 1 January 1927. 
Agrees with others from southwestern Uganda (Lake Mutanda) and the 
Ituri district, Belgian Congo (Medje), in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. 
Lagonosticta senegella ruberrima Reichenow 
Lagonosticta brunneiceps ruberrima Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., 1903, p. 24: n. of Victoria Nyanza. 
Two males, Uvira, 26 January 1927. 
One of these birds has the white spots on the breast well developed and the 
other lacks them entirely. The former was approaching breeding condition when 
collected (testes somewhat enlarged) and the latter was not (testes small). The 
former has the under tail-coverts tipped with grayish white. 
