MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 187 



213. Plocepasser melanorhynchus Riippell. 



Systematische Uebersicht der Vogel Nord-Ost-Afrika's, 1845, 

 p. 78. Shoa. 



9 , Oct., Tana River. 



214. Pyromelana nigroventris (Cass.). 



Euplectes nigroventris Cassin, Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1848, p. 66. Zanzibar. 

 c?, 9 , Apr., Voi. 

 "Nests in communities in reeds." 



215. Quelea sanguinirostris rcthiopica (Sund.}. 



Ploceus sanguinirostris var. cethiopica Sundevall, Oefversigt af 

 Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Forhandlingar (Stockholm) 1850, 

 p. 126. Senaar, Egyptian Sudan. 



9,9, March, Gilgil. 



9 , Dec., Lucania. 



These specimens agree well with others in this Museum from 

 Somaliland. 



216. Hypargos niveoguttatus (Peters}. 



Spermophaga niveoguttata Peters, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1868, 

 p. 133. Inhambane, Portuguese East Africa. 



d\ Apr., Voi. . 



The back of this specimen, which is apparently an adult, is near 

 to mummy brown, and the crown and nape are olive. In these par- 

 ticulars it does not seem to quite agree with Sharpe's description 

 in Catalogue of Birds in British Museum, Vol. XIII, page 274, wherein 

 the back is said to be "warm chocolate-brown; crown, dark ashy." 



See OBERHOLSER, Proceedings National Museum, Washington, 

 1905, p. 882, various plumages. 



217. Granatina ianthinogaster (Reich.}. 



Ur&ginthus ianthinogaster Reichenow, Ornithologisches Central- 

 blatt, IV. (1879) p. 114, pi. ii. Masailand, East Africa. 



cT, Dec., Lucania. 



9, Feb., Gilgil. 



"Iris of male red; female, orange." 



See OBERHOLSER, Proceedings National Museum, Washington, 

 1905, p. 879, description of immature plumage. 



