252 PLOCEID^. 



horn-colour, greenish towards the base ; feet flesh-colour ; iris red " 

 (G. A. Fisclier). Total length 5 inches, culmeii 0-6, wing 2-6, 

 tail I'S, tarsiis 0"7. 



Adult male. Similar in plumage to the female. Total length 

 4*7 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2'7, tail 1*9, tarsus 0'7. 



Hah. Kilimanjaro district to the East Coast. 



a, h. S; c. 9. ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



March 14, 1887. 



12. PYRENESTES. 



Type. 

 Pyrenestes, Sirauis. B. W. Afr. i. p. 1-j6 (1837) P. ostriuus. 



Bill of Pyrenestes ostrinus, to show tooth in toiaium. 

 Range. Confined to AVest Africa. 



1. Pyrenestes ostrinus. 



Loxia ostrina, Vieill. Ot's. Chant, p. 79, pi. 48 (1805). 

 Coccothraustes ostrinus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xLii. p. 548 



(1817). 

 Pyrenestes sanguineus. Steams. B. W. Afr. p. 156, pi. 9 (1837). 

 Pyrenestes ostrinus, Gray., Gen. B. ii. p. 356 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 450 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 139 (1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. ii. p. 49, no. 6G78 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 68 (1871) ; 

 Forhes, Ibis, 1883, p. 526 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 549 ; Shelley, Ibis, 

 1886, p. 314 (pt.). 

 Adult male. General colour above velvety black, from the hind 

 neck to the rump ; scapulars like the back ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts bright crimson ; wing-coverts and quills brownish black : tail- 

 feathers entirely dark crimson, the rest blackish, externally dark 

 crimson ; a narrow line of black along the base of the forehead ; 

 crown of head and hind neck, lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, throat, sides of neck, fore neck, and chest bright crimson ; 

 breast and abdomen velvety black ; sides of body bright crimson 

 like the throat ; thighs and under tail-coverts black ; under wing- 

 coverts and asillaries black ; quills below dusky, more ashy along 

 the inner edge : " bill blue-black, culmen greyish blue at the base ; 

 eyelids black, with pale blue median spot on each ; feet dark horny ; 

 iris chestnut-brown" (W. A. Forhes). Total length 5-6 inches; 

 exposed culmen 0'6, wing 2*9, tail 2"25, tarsus 0"85. 



Adidt ftntale. Differs from the male in being brown where the 

 latter is black, the vent and under tail-coverts being washed with 



