254 PLOCEIDJi!. 



the bill was blue-black, the feet yellowish browu, and the eyelid 

 white. The Cameroons specimen, which ho separates as P. coccineus, 

 had the bill steel-blue, the feet yellowish grey-brown, the iris clear 

 reddish browu, and the eyelid white. These soft parts will bo seen 

 to differ somewhat from those given by Mr. Biittikofer. 



Hab. West Africa from Senegambia to the Congo, extending 

 along the Congo region to Equatorial Africa. 



a. [Si ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swauzj, Esq. [P.]. 



/!i. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Fantee. Saarpe Coll. 



c, rf. [ $ ] ad. sk. Fantee {Kirby). Shelley Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



f.\9.^ ad. sk. Gaboon. Sharps Coll. 



'(). Juv. sk. Gaboon. M. DuChaillu [C.]. 



h. ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaillu). Tweeddale Coll. 



i. 2 imm. sk. Leopoldville, Upper Congo, F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Dec. 



k. (5 ad. sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Afiica, Eniin Pasha [P.]. 



July 4, 1885. 



13. CRYPTOSPIZA. 



Type. 

 Cryptospiza, Saload. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 180 



(1884) C. reichenowi. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Cryptospiza reichenowi. 



Pytelia reicherowii, Hartl. Ibis, 1874, p. 166 ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1875, 



p. 41, pi. 2. %. 1. __ 

 Cryptospiza reicheuowii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cicic. Genov. (2) i. 



p. 180 (1884) ; Shelleij, Ibis, 1886, p. 317. 



Adult. Head, neck, and under surface of body yellowish 

 olive-brown ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and sides of body 

 brownish carmine-red ; coverts and inner secondaries edged with 

 brownish red: iris dark; feet aud bill black. Total length 12 

 inches, culmeu I'l, wing 5'3, tail 4, tarsus 2. (Hartlcmb.) 



Hab. Bonjongo in the Cameroon Mountains, and extending across 

 to Shoa. 



14. aUELEA. 



Type. 

 Quelea, Reichenb. tSi/st. Nat. Taf. l.Yxvi. fig. 1 (1850) .... ? Q. quelea. 

 Hyphautica, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 180 (1S50) ? Q. quelea. 



Bill of Qticka quelea, to show deflected angle in tomium. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



