230 PLOCEID^, 



d'. S ad. sk. Zanzibar. Sir J. Kirk [C.]. 



e', f, y\ (S ad. et Pangani (&V J. Kirk:). Shelley Coll. 



juv. sk. 



h', i'. (S 5 ad. sk. Melinda {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



h\l'. S ad.sk. Mombasa (J/fwswO- l^^v. A. F. Buxton 



[P.]. 



m', n', o'. (J ad. ; Tingasi, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.j. 



p'. 2 ad. sk. July, Aug. 



g'. S ad. sk. Kubbi, July 1881. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



r'. (S ad. sk. Abyssinia. I)r. Ruppell [C.]. 



s'. (5 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 



2, Pyromelana nigriventris. 



Eiiplectes nigriventris, Cass. Proc. Philacl. Acad. 1848, p. 66 ; id, 



Joiirn. Philad. Acnd. 1. p. 242, pi. ^1. fig. 1 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 447 (1850) ; Cab. in von der Decleti's Meis. iii. p. 31 (1869) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 715 ; Nichols. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 558 ; Cab. 



J. f. 0. 1878, p. 231; Fischer Sr Reichen. J.f. O. 1879, pp. 286, 



303 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1880, p. 187 ; Shellet/, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 586 ; 



Fischer, J.f. O. 1885, p. 134. 

 Ploceus nigriventris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 46, no. 6643 (1870). 

 Euplectes sp., Licht. Nomencl. At: p. 49 (1854). 

 Pyromelana nigriventris, Finsch S,- Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 415 



(1870); Gmmey,Ihis, 1881, p. 128; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 353, 



1888, p. 302, 



Adult male. Similar to P. jiammiceps, of which it is a diminutive 

 form, much smaller than that species, and differing in its scarlet 

 under tail-coverts and tawny buff thighs and under wing-coverts, 

 as well as by the absence of the scarlet band acros the fore neck, 

 the whole of the under surface of the body being velvety black. 

 Total length 3-75 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-4, tail 1-25, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult fmnale. Scarcely to be distinguished from the female of 

 P. franciscana. Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 05, wing 2'1, 

 tail PI, tarsus 0'6. 



Hah. East Africa, throughout the Zanzibar district, from Mombasa 

 south to Mozambique. 



«, &. c? ? ad. sk. Mombasa {Hanson). Rev. A. F. Buxton 



c. (S ad. sk. Mombasa ( Wakefield). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



d. S ad. sk. Ugogo {Sir J. Kirk), Shelley Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Lamo {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 

 /. cJ ad. sk. Pangani River {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



a. A ad. sk. Manda Island. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 h. (S ad. sk. Mozambique, March. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



3. Pyromelana oryx. 



The Grenadier, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iv. pi. 178 (1751). 



Le Cardinal du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 114, pi. v. 



fig. 3 (1760) ; Danbent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 6. fig. 2 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. iii. p. 496 (1775). 



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