PEJfTHETRIA. 



215 



/. cS imm. sk. Pietermaritzburg, May ( T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buclih-y). 

 m. $ ad. sk. Pongola River, June 12 {T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Bucldey). 

 n. (S imm. sk. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Dec. Forbes Coll. 



{T. Ay res). 

 0, p, q. S ad. et Transvaal, June, Dec. {F. AV. E. and C. G. 

 imm. sk. Oates). Gates, Esqrs. [P.]. 



/•, s. (5 ad. et Transvaid, Dec. {T. E. Buck- Shelley Coll. 



juv. sk. lei/). 



t, u, V. (S ad. sk. Transvaal, Nov. to Jan. (T. Shelley Coll. 



Ay res). 



6. PENTHETRIA. 



Type. 

 Coliuspasser *, Rtipp. Keue Wirb. p. 98 (1835-40) .... P. laticauda. 



Penthetria, Cab. Arch. f. Natury. 1847, p. 331 P. laticauda. 



Coliostruthus, Sundev. (E/v. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stovkh. 



1849, p. 158 P. laticauda. 



Niobe, Reichenh. Singv. p. 61 (1861) P. ardeus. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No white on primary-coverts and base of primaries. 

 «'. No oi'ange on wing-coverts. 



a". Head black ; only a scarlet collar on fore neck 



(sometimes absent) ardens, p. 215. 



6". Head scarlet, as well as the collar on the fore 



neck laticauda, p. 218. 



b'. Least wing-coverts orange, the median series 



cinnamon hartlaiihi, p. 219. 



h. Primary-coverts and base of primaries white. 



c'. Lesser wing-coverts yellow albonotata, p. 219. 



d'. Lesser wing-coverts chestnut eques, p. 220. 



1. Penthetria ardens. 



? La Veuve de I'isle de Panay, Sonn. Voy. N. Guin. p. 117, pi. 75 



(1776). 

 La Veuve a poitiine rouge du Cap de Bonne Esp6rance, Daitbent. 



PL Enl. iv. pi. 647. 

 La Veuve en feu, Month. Hist. Nat. Ols. iv. p. 167 (1778). 

 ? Emberiza signata. Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insubr. ii. p. 95 



(1786, e.v So7in.)f. 

 Panayan Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 184 (1783). 

 Fringilla ardens, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 39 (1783, e.v Dauhent.). 

 Emberiza pauayensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 885 (1788, e.v Sonn.). 



* Notwithstanding the imprimatur which this name has received from 

 Captain Shelley and Count Salvador!, I think it is .so thoroughly opposed to 

 the rules of classical nomenclature that it cannot be allowed to stand. 



t Name rejected, as Sonuerat's figure is inaccurate. 



