256 PLOCEID^. 



" flanks tawny brown, with dusky-brown centres ; thighs rosy ; under 

 tail-covoits uniform isabellino buff ; uuder wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries pale tawny buff, edged with rosy along the bend of the wing ; 

 quills below dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge : " bill horn- 

 black, with a slight tint of rosu-colour ; angle of mouth whitish ; 

 feet and claws pale rosy ; iris duskj' " (Ilew/Un). Total length 3"9 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-35, tail 1-3, tarsus 0-7. 



An adult male from Kibiro {Emin Pasha) is larger (wing 2*6) 

 and has whiter uuder tail-coverts. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, streaked with darker brown centres to the feathers, the 

 mantle-feathers margined with whity brown ; wing-coverts and 

 quills dark brown, edged with paler brown, whitish on the median 

 and greater coverts, and olive- yellow onthecjuills ; upper tatl-coverts 

 like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, with lighter bi'own edges, 

 tinged with olive-yellow ; crown of head more uniform brown, 

 washed with olive-yellow on the forehead ; a distinct eyebrow of 

 pale orange-yellow ; lores ashy brown ; ear-coverts and cheeks light 

 tawny brown, with a reddish tinge ; throat whitish, washed with 

 tawny brown ; fore neck and upper breast pale tawny brown ; the 

 lower breast and abdomen pure white ; sides of body, flanks, and 

 thighs brown; under tail-coverts isabelline buff: under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries pale tawny brown, yellow along the edge of 

 the wing ; quills below dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length -i'l inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2"35, tail 1"3, tarsus 0'65. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegambia extending throughout the 

 Congo region to Angola, and across to Equatorial Africa. 



2. Guelea cardinalis, (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Hyphantica cardinalis, Hartl. J.f. O.1880, p. 325, 1881, pi. i.figs. 1, 

 "2; id. Abhandl. ?iat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 102 (1881), viii. p. 201 

 (1883); Pelz. Verh.z.-b. Ges. fFiwi, xxxii. p. 508 (1882); Fischer, 

 Zeitschr. qes. Orn. i. p. 329 (1884) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 134. 



Quelea cardinalis, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 357; id. P. Z. S. 1888, 

 p. 33. 



Adult male. Similar to Q. erytlirops, but with the head and throat 

 lighter crimson, and extending over the whole of the fore neck. The 

 crimson on the crown does not extend beyond the hinder crown, the 



