/. PENTHETRIOPSIS. 223 



2. Penthetriopsis macrocerca. 



Yellow-shouldered Oriole, Broivn, III. Zool. pi. xi p oo n776) 

 Fncgilla macrocerca, Z/c/,<. r«-Z>oKW. p. 24 (IS^)" 

 toIiuspasserflaviscapulatu8,i?«^y,.i\>Me 7T^»-6., J-<v,. p;98(]83o-40) 

 Vidua macrocerca, D.. Murs in Lefehvre\ Vor}. AbyFs. p 172 (1845 V 



Gray, Gen. B. n. p. 355 (1849) y .^. i^ K>-o'to), 



Cohuspasser macrurus {nee Gm.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 77 (1845) • 



Heuffl. Syst. Uebers. p. 39 (1856). ^ K^otoj , 



Peutlieria flaviscapulatus, Bp. Comp. i. p. 449 (1850) 



C«?:f;i-.^p.63'(l8?{?' "• ^^'^- P- '^'^ a^ri)./s,arpe, 

 Penthetria flaviscapulata, Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 264 (1870) 

 Vidr^ flavoscapulata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 48, no^ 6673 (1870) 



(1870) "' ^^"^^^P^l'-^t^^. ^l^nf. GeolU- Zool. Abyis. p. 407 

 Coliuspasser macrocercus, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 847. 



Adult male Similar to P. macrura, but distinguished by the 

 ab en e of yellow on the mantle and scapulars, which are black! 

 only the lesser wing-coverts being bright yellow and forming \ 

 shoulder-patch: ''bill black, bluish horn-colour atlh t'nfnd 

 along the tomia; feet rufescent ; iris dusky" {HeunZ)\X\ 

 leng h 8-0 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-5, taU 4-5 tarsus 95 



The coloration of the female and the changes of plumage under- 

 gone by both sexes are doubtless similar to P. mcJura, but I have 

 no properly marked specimens to describe. 



Hah. Xorth-eastern Africa ; Abyssinia. 



n. c? imm. sk. N.E Africa n ^ 



^- 5 fd fk fr^^'^ (^'•- ^'^^'^^^>- stall: Coil: 



• ^ ^''- '^- Abyssinia. L^rd"^ Mountmorris, 



e. dad.sk. Goon-goona. w'l T.^Blanford, Esq. 



{■ h i^'Sim'^'sk S°"";^°T' ^^%i^- '^''''^- T^eeddale CoU. 

 9, 1. c? imm. sk. Facado, May 1868 ( W. Sharpe Coll 

 Jesfe). '■ 



3. Penthetriopsis soror. 



Penthetria soror, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887 p. 70 



^f?H?« Similar to P macrocerca, but differing in its considerablv 

 smaller dimensions and somewhat brighter-j^^Uow shoSr spot 



