24. ZONOGASTEIS. 297 



Fringilla elegans, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 912 (1788) ; Vieill. Enc. 

 Meth. iii. p. 984 (1823J ; id. Gal. Ois. p. 77, pi. Ixiv. (1825-34). 



Fringilla beau Marquet, J'ieill. Ois. Chant, p. 49, pi. 25 (1805). 



Loxigilla elegans, Less. Traite, p. 444 (1831). 



E.sti'elda speciosa, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 309 (1849). 



Pytelia elegans, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 461 (1850). 



Zonogastiis melba, Cab. Miis. Hein. i. p. 172, note (1850). 



Pytelia melba. Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 150 ; Fiiisch ^ Hartl, 

 Voff. Ostafr. p. 441 (1870); S/iarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 66 (1871); 

 Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 178 (1872) ; Buckley, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 382 ; Sharpe l^j- Boiivier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. J9 

 (1876) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, pp. 29, 172 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1878, 

 p. 282 ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 355 (1881) ; Sharpie in Oates' 

 Matabele-Land, App. B, p. 320 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 356; 

 Bohni, J. f. O. 1883, p. 184 ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 468 (1884) ; Bohm, J. f. 0. 1884, p. 200 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 319 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mas. xi. p. 74 (1888) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 302 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 30. 



Marquetia elegans, Reiclienb. Sini/v. p. 48, pi. 18. figs. 159, 160 

 (1861). 



Estrelda melba, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 199 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. ii. p. 52, no. 6729 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 295. 



Pytelia citerior (nee Strickl.), Fischer i^" Beichen. J. f. 0. 1879, p. 352 ; 

 Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 324 (1884) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1887, 

 p. 71. 



? Pytelia elegantissima, Bdhm, J. f. 0. 1884, p. 178. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow ; the lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts dull scarlet ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard-wing aud primarj'-coverts dusky, with olive-yellow margins ; 

 quills dusky brown, edged with olive-yellow, ashy on the margins 

 of the primaries, the inner secondaries almost entirely olive-yellow ; 

 centre tail-feathers dull scarlet, with black shafts, the remainder 

 black, dull scarlet externally ; crown of head and hind neck slaty 

 grey, as also the ear-coverts and sides of neck ; forehead scarlet ; 

 lores dusky ; fore part of cheeks scarlet, the hinder part slaty grey ; 

 throat scarlet ; fore neck olive-yellow with a golden tinge ; chest 

 washed with yellow, the feathers spotted with white at the ends, 

 and subterminally barred with white and black ; the spotted cha- 

 racter disappearing on the rest of the under surface, which is more 

 regularly barred with, white and black, especially on the sides of the 

 body ; thighs ashy brown ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white, the latter with a fulvous tinge ; under wiug-coverts ashy, 

 washed with yellow near the edge of the wing ; quills below ashy, 

 lighter along the inner edge : " bill light brick-red, the culmen 

 dusky; feet light ashy brown (T. Ayres) : feet and toes purplish; 

 iris orange-brown" (C. J. Andersson), "light hazel" {T. Ayres). 

 Total length 4-3 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-25, tail 1"9, tarsus 0*7. 



Adnlt fhncde. Diifers from the male in being duller in colour, in 

 wanting all the scarlet on the head and sides of face, which parts 

 are ashy grey : the throat also is light ashy, with slight indications 

 of whitish bars ; there is also no golden yellow on the fore neck and 

 breast, the under surface being less strongly barred and spotted than 

 in the male: "bill crimson, feet dark brown; iris red" (T. E. 



