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Show 1888.J FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 31 Iris and bill red, culmen blackish ; legs flesh-brown. In the British Museum are apparently typical specimens of both sexes of P. cinereigula ; the female is a female of this species and the male is P. afra (Gm.). 69. PYTELIA PHCENICOPTERA, Swains. Pytelia phcenicoptera, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. viii. 1882, p. 203 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. Zonogastris erythroptera, Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxii. 1882, p. 509. No. 385. o*. Lado, Aug. 16, 1884. Iris red; bill black ; legs pale brown. 70. LAGONOSTICTA SENEGALA (Linn.). Lagonosticta minima, Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxi. 1881, p. 606. Lagonosticta senegala, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. No. 182. 3- Kibero, Oct. 7, 1886. 71. LAGONOSTICTA RARA (Antin.). Rhodopgga hypomelas, Heugl. J. f. O. 1868, p. 13, pi. 1. fig. 4. Habropyga hypomelana, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 611. Habropyga cenochroa, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1882, p. 322; id. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. viii. 1882, p. 203. Lagonosticta rara, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 323. Lagonosticta cenochroa, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 322, pi. 13. fig. 6. Ad. Lado, Oct. 24, 1885. No. 15. 3 • Tingasi, Aug. 9, 1883. No. 175. $. Tingasi, July 3, 1883. I have referred this species to L. rara (Antin.), although I have not examined a typical specimen ; but it appears to me to be undoubtedly the same as L. cenochroa, Hartl., which, under the impression that it was the type I had examined, I wrongly referred to L. rhodopareia (Ibis, 1886, p. 324). L. rara has been badly figured by Heuglin under the name of Rhodopyga hypomelas, but the sides of the body have been painted black instead of red as described, and this appears to be the only character upon which L. cenochroa, Hartl., has been separated. The real characters for this species appear to be :-the pale patch on the lower mandible, most strongly marked in specimens 15 and 175, and the absence of white spots on the sides of the chest in adult males. To this species should undoubtedly be referred the L. melanogastra of m y paper in 'The Ibis,' 1883, p. 153, from Lukoja on the Niger. 72. ESTRELDA NONNULA, Hartl. Asirilda nonnula, Hartl. J. f. O. 1883, p. 425 ; id. Zool. Jahrb. i. 1886, p. 321, pi. 13. fig. 5. |
