14. QUELEA. 257 



occiput, nape, and hind neck being brown, streaked with black and • 

 washed with crimson. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-25, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-65. 

 Hub. Equatorial Africa. 



a, h,c. S '} d, e. $ Lado, Equatorial Africa, June to Shelley Coll. 



ad. sk. August (Emin Pasha). 



f. (S ad. sk. Lado, July 17, 1870 {Emin Forbes Coll. 



Pasha). 

 I/, h, i. (5 ad. sk. Wadelai, July 1885. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



3. ftuelea quelea. (Plate X. fig. 3.) 



Brazilian Span-ow, Edwards, Gleanings, ii. p. 128, pi. 271. fig. 2 



(1700). 

 Le Moineau a bee rouge du S^ndgal, Bliss. Orn. iii. p. 110, pi. vi. 



tig. 1 (17G0) ; Daubent. PI. Erd. iv. pi. 183. fig. 2. 

 PLoxia sanguinirostris, Linn, Si/st. Nat. i. p. 30.3 (1766). 

 Emberiza quelea, Linn. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 310 (1766, ex Bfiss.) ; Gni, 



Syst. Nat. i. p. 877 (1788). 

 Moineau du S6n<?gal, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 233. fig. 1 ; Buff. Hist. 



Nat. iii. p. 484 (1775). 

 Black-faced Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 192 (1783). ' 

 Loxia quelea, Baud. Trait4, ii. p. 448 ( 1800) ; Less. Traiti, p. 446 



(1831). 

 Dioch, Vieill. Ois.' Chant, p. 46, pis. 22, 23 (1805). 

 Dioch rose, Vieill. t. c. p. 48, pi. 24 (1805). 

 Fringilla quelea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 233 (1817) ; 



Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 27 (1823). 

 Loxia lathami. Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Exped., App. p. 51 (1836). 

 Loxia sanguiuirostris, Hahn 4' Kiister, Orn. Atlas, Lief. i. Taf. 4 



(1834). 

 Euplectea sanguinirostris, Sivains. B. W. Afr. 1. p. 188 (1837); 



Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 30 (18-18). 

 Ploceus sanguinirostris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849) ; Sundev. 



(Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. 1850, p. 126 ; StricJd. ^- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, 



p. 150; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 44, no. 6618 (1870); Finsch Sf 



Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 407 (1870) ; Sharjye, Cat. Afr. B. p. 61 



(1871, pt.j ; Bocaqe, Orn. Angola, p. 320 (1877-81) ; Bokni, J.f. 



O. 1883, p. 199. 

 Amadina lathami. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 370 (1849). 

 Quelea sanguinirostris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 445 (1850) ; Reiehenb. Singv. 



p. 66, pi. XXX. figs. 233-235 (1861); Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.- 



Ld. p. 173 (1872) ; Holub Sf Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siklafr. p. 116 



(]882). 

 Ilyphantica sanguinirostris, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 180 (1850) ; 



Reichen. J.f. O. 1886, p. 392. 

 Ploceus quelea, Licht. Nomencl. p. 50 (1854). 

 Quelea occidentalis, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 129 (1857); id. J.f. O. 



1861, p. 176. 

 Quelea lathami, Reiehenb. Singv. p. 67, Taf. xxx. figs. 236-238 



(1861). 

 Ploceus lathami, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 186 (1867). 

 Quelea quelea, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 356 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard''s B. S. 



Afr. p. 458 (1884) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 357 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, 



p. 34. 

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