236 PLOCEID^. 



lower eyelid white ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, 

 and under surface of body velvety black ; lower flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts white : under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 

 sandy buff; quills below dusky brown, whitish along the inner web. 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 1-5, tarsus 0*8. 

 Hab. Ecnguela northwards to Gaboon. 



a. S ad. sk. West Africa (Mus. Lisb.). Sharpe Coll. 



b. (S ad. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



c. (S ad. sk. E. Quanza. Shelley OoU. 



9, Pyromelana diademata. 



Euplectes diadematus, Fischer Sf Meichen. J.f. O. 1878, pp. 264, .354, 

 pi. 2. tig. 4 ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 327 (1»84) ; id. J.f. O. 

 1885, p. 134. 



Pyromelaua diademata, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 354 ; id. Ibis, 1888, 

 p. 302. 



Adult male. General colour above golden yellow, brighter on the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; the mantle and upper back 

 yellow, with dusky blackish centres to the feathers ; wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, with yellow edges to the lesser series ; median and 

 greater coverts brown, edged with whity brown ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills brown, narrowly edged with yellow, the 

 secondaries broadly margined with white or tinged with yellow : 

 tail-feathers brown ; forehead bright orange ; hinder crown and 

 nape black, as also the sides of the neck ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts black, mixed with yellow ; throat yellow, spotted with black 

 at the ends of the feathers ; fore neck, breast, and abdomen black, 

 some of the flank-feathers edged with yellow ; lower flanks, sides of 

 vent, and under tail-covcrts bright yellow ; thighs and under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries sandy buff", the latter washed with bright 

 yellow; quills light brown, edged with isabelline along the inner 

 edge. Total length 3'9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-2, tail 1-3, 

 tarsus 0'65. 



Hab. East Africa, from Lamu to Pangani. 



a. S ad. sk. Lamu, E. Africa. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



10. Pyromelana capensis. 



Le Pin9on du Cap de bonne Esperance, Bi-iss. Orn. iii. p. 171, pi. xvi. 



fig. 1 (1760). 

 Loxia capensis, Linii. Syst. Nat. i. p. 306 (1766). 

 Gros-bec tachet^ du Cap de Bonue Espi^rance, Baubent. PL Enl. iv. 



pi. 659. fig. 1 ; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 473 (1775). 

 Gros-bec de Coromandel, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 101. fig. 1; Buf. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 456 (1775). 

 Cape Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt.^i. p. 113 (1783). 

 Loxia 1186 via, Gm. Syst. Nat. p. 845 (1788). 



