220 PLOCEID.E. 



h. cJ ad. sk. Between the Pantamatenkn AV. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Kiver and tlie Zambesi, Esqrs. [P.]. 



Jan. 11 {F. Gates). 



i. Inim. sk. ^lakaJaka Country {Dr. Shelley CoU. 



L'raclskaiv). 



k. (S ad. sk. Shire Valley {Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedition, 



/. c? ad. sk. Angola. ' Monteiro Coll. 



711. c? ad. sk. Quanza Kiver. Shelley Coll. 



}t. (S ad.sk. Loando, Angola (T. ?7io);y)- Slielley Coll. 



sun). 



o, p, q. S ad. et Landana, Congo, Jan. (i. Shelley Coll. 



imni. sk. Petit). 



r, s. Juv. sir. Gaboon {I)u Chaillu). Sharpe Coll. 



5. Penthetria eques. 



Vidua eques, Hartl. P. Z. S. 18G3, p. lOG, pi. xv. ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 110 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 48, no. 6608 (1870) ; Finsch ^ 

 Marti. Voy. Ostafr. p. 4:20 (lb70) ; Bi>hn, J. f. 0. 1883, p. 1!j9 ; 

 Schaloic, t. c. p. 363 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 229. 



Penthetria (Urobrachya) eques, Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 326 

 (1884). 



Penthetria eques, Cab. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 231 ; Bohyn, J.f. 0. 1885, p. 42. 



Urobraehya eques, Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 135. 



Cohuspasser eques, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 348, 1888, p. 293. 



Adult male. Similar to P. albonotcita, but having the lesser wing- 

 coverts bright rufous instead of yellow : " bill horn-blue ; feet 

 black ; iris brown " (Fischer). Total length 6-7 inches, culnien 

 0-6, wing 3, tail 3-4, tarsus 0"8. 



Ilab. East Africa from Masai-Laud to Kilimanjaro and Unia- 

 muesi and reaching to Lake Tanganyika. 



a, b. S ad. et Kilimanjaro. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.J. 



imm. sk. 

 c. (S ad. sk. Maurui, E. Africa, Jan. 20 Shelley Coll. 

 (Z*/-. Fischer). 



7. PENTHETEIOPSIS. 



liange. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Mantle and scapulars as well as lesser wing- 



coverts yellow tnacnira, p. 220. 



b. Mantle and scapulars black; only the lesser I viacrocerca, p. 223. 



wing-coverts yellow ( soror, p. 223. 



1. Penthetriopsis macrura. 



Moineau du Royaume de Juda, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 183. fig. 1. 

 Pere noire a longue queue, 3Ivntb. Mist. Nat. Vis. iii. p. 487 (1775). 

 Loxia moineau, P. i. aS'. Miill. Sysf. Kat., Auhaug, p. 150 (1776); 

 Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 252. 



