238 PLOCEID^. 



g. $ juv. sk. South Africa, Sept. 1841. Sharpe Coll. 



h, i. (S; k. 2 ad. sk. Cape Town ( nufler). Shelley Coll. 



/, m. d ad. sk. Cape Town, Nov. 1865 (C. J. Sharpe Coll. 

 Andersson). 



Subsp. a. Pyromelana minor. 



Oryx minor, Reichenb. Singv. p. 59, pi. 24. figs. 210, 211 (1861). 

 Euplectes capensis (wee L.), Gurnei/, Ibis, 1865, p. 269; id. in 



Anderss. B. Dani.-Ld. p. 170 (1872) ; Biickley, Ibis, 1874, p. 381 ; 



Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 206 ; Sharpe, in Oates^ Matabele-Land, 



App. Birds, p. ,320 (1881). 

 Euplectes xantbomelas {nee Biipp.), Gurnei/, Ibis, 1868, p. 51. 

 Pyromelana capensis (nee L.), Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 463, 



849 (1884, pt). 

 Euplectes capensis, var. minor. Grill, Zool. Anteckn. pp. 10, 22 (1858) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 62 (1871). 

 Orynx capensis (jiec L.), Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 326 (1884) ; 



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



Adult male. Similar to P. capensis, and having the same brown 

 thighs, but very much smaller : " bill pale dusky ; tarsi and feet 

 light brown; iris dusky" (T. A;/res). Total length 5 inches, cul- 

 men 0*6, wing 3, tail 2, tarsus 0-8t5. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of P. capensis, but smaller. 



Hah. From the Knysna district in the Cape Colony through Natal 

 and the Transvaal to the Matabele country. 



a. a. Imm. sk. 



b. (f ad. sk. 



c. (S ad. sk. 



d. c? ad. sk. 



e. tS ad. sk. 

 /. (S ad. sk. 



g. 5 ad. sk. 



h, i. cJ 2 hiem. 



sk. 

 k, I. S ad. at imm. 



sk. 

 m-q. <5ad.etjuv. ; 



r. 2 ad. sk. 

 s. (S ad. sk. 



t. 2 ad. sk. 



u. (S hiem. sk. 



V. (S ad. ; tv. cj 



imm. sk. 

 X. S hiem. sk. 



Knysna, Dec, Jan. (C. J An- 



dersson). 

 Port Elizabeth. 

 Eland's Post(r. C. Atmore). 

 Kingwilliamstown {H. Tre- 



velgan). 

 Natal. 

 Burg Mount, Natal, June 



(Gordc/e). 

 Bothas Hill, July 16 {T. L. 



Ay res). 

 Pinetown, May 14 {T. L. 



Ayres). 

 Drakensberg Mountains, Dec. 



19 (T. E. Buckley). 

 Drakensberg, Aug., Oct. {E. 



A. Butler). 

 Newcastle, Oct. 26 {E. A. 



Butler). 

 Kaar Kloof Heights, May 19 



{F. Gates). 

 Transvaal (F. Gates). 



Macamac, Nov. 



Matabele-Land, Sept. 9, 1873 

 [T. E.Buckley). 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



SheUey Coll. 



Shelley CoU. 



Shelley Coll. 



SheUey CoU. 



SheUey CoU. 



W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



