14. QTJELEA. 255 



Key to the Species. 



a. Crown, sides of face, and throat bright crimson. 



a'. Some black on the throat erythrdjis, p. 255. 



b'. No black on the throat cardinalis, p. 250. 



b. No crimson on the crown or throat, which may be 



rose-coluiired in very old birds. 

 a'. Ear-coverts black like the upper throat. 



a". Forehead black, forming a broad band .... quelea, p. 257. 



h" . No black on forehead (ethiopica, p. 259. 



c". With a little black on the forehead intermedia, p. 259. 



b'. Ear-coverts sandy bufl"; no black on forehead 



or throat russi, p. 260. 



1. Guelea erythrops. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 



? Fringilla erythrocephala, Des Murs in Lefebvres Voy. Ahy^s. p. 119 



(1845). 

 Ploceus erythrops, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 109 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 353 (1849) ; Keidem. N. T. I), iii. p. 394 (1866) ; Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 45, no. 6623 (1870) ; Finsch Sj- Hartl. Voff. Ostafr. p. 407 



(1870, note) ; Reichenb. Corresp. Afrik. Gesellsch. 1874, p. 181 ; id. 



J.f. O. 1877, p. 28; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 319 (1877-81); 



Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 194 (1885). 

 Euplectes erythrops, Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 53, Taf. viii. 



(1848). 

 Foudia erythrops, Bp. Consp. i. p. 446 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 129 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 134 ; Hartl. J. 



f. 0. 1861, p. 176; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 62 (1871); id. Ibis, 



1872, p. 72 ; Shelley <^- Buckley, Ibis', 1872, p. 239. 

 Quelea capitata, DuBus, Btdl. Acad. R. Brux. xxii. pt. i. p. 151 



(1855). 

 Calyphantria erythrops, Heine, J. f. 0. 1860, p. 144. 

 Quelea erythrops, Reichenb. Sinyv. p. 67, pi. xxx. iigs. 239^241 



(1861); Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 356; id. P.Z.S. 1888, p. 33. 

 Foudia hfematocephala, Heuyl. J.f. O. 1864, p. 250. 

 Calyphantria hsematocephala, Heuyl. J. f O. 1867, p. 390. 

 Hyphantica hsematocephala, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 545, 



pi. 19 a (1870). 

 Hyphantica ervthrops, Fischer l^- Reichen. J. f. O. 1879, p. 352 ; 



'Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 327 (1884); id. J.f. O. 1885, 



p. 134. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, streaked witli dark 

 brown centres to the feathers, the mantle-feathers with paler and 

 more sandy-brown edges ; "\ving-covorts like the back, and similarly 

 edged, the median coverts margined with white ; the greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primarj-- coverts, and quills dark brown, with olive- 

 yellow margins, some of which are tinged with rosy ; upper tail- 

 coverts uniform brown : tail-feathers dark brown, with olive-yellow 

 edges ; crown of head and nape crimson, as also the lores, sides of 

 face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat, the latter mottled with black 

 bases to the feathers, extending on to the fore neck ; chest uniform 

 tawny brown ; breast and abdomen whitish ; sides of body and 



