25. PTTELIA. 303 



Pj'telia inelba, pt., Fimch ^- Hartl. Vocj. Ostafr. p. 442 (1870). 



Pytelia cineieigula, Cab. Orn. Centralbl. 1877, p. 182 ; id. J. f. O, 

 1878, pp. 10] , 2.30 ; Fischer ^- Reichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. "260 

 Fischer, J. f. O. 1880, p. 193: Shelleij, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 58-! 

 Schaloiv, J. f. O. 1884, p. 177 ; Bohm, J. f. O. 188o, p. G9 

 Schalmv, J. f. O. 1886, p. 413 ; Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, p. 154. 



Pvtelia wieneri, Ems, Gefied. Welt, 1887, p. 317 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 

 ' 1880, p. 40, pi. 47. tig. 2. 



Pytelia pyroptervx, Schaloiv, J. /. 0. 1884, pp. 177, 178 {ex Bohm, 

 'MSS.). 



Adult male. General colour above dull orange-yellow ; lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts crimson; wing-coverts like the back, the median 

 and greater series washed externally with orange-scarlet; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, with orange or orange- 

 scarlet on the outer webs ; centre tail-feathers dark crimson, the re- 

 mainder black, dark crimson externally ; crown of head and nape ashy 

 grey, as also the sides of the neck and lower thi'oat ; the forehead, eye- 

 brow, feathers rouud eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, and fore part 

 of cheeks and upper throat crimson ; hinder cheeks ashy grey ; 

 remainder of under surface of body olive-yellow with a golden olive 

 tiuge on the fore neck ; breast barred irregularly with white, these 

 bars more distinct on the abdomen ; sides of body also slightly 

 barred ; under tail- coverts dusky olive with white tips and bars ; 

 under wing-coverts whitish, with ashy bases, the edge of the wing 

 washed with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky blackish, ashy along 

 the inner edge : " bill red, base of upper mandible brown ; feet 

 horu-yellow ; iris orange '' (G. A. Fi<icher). Total length 4-7 inches, 

 culmen Q-o, wing 2*35, tail 1"4, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but duller in colour and 

 wanting the red on the forehead, face, and throat. Total length 

 4-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-3, tail 1-25, tarsus 0-6. 



Young. Similar to the adult female, but with a paler and more 

 horn-brown bill, and whiter throat. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Congo to Angola and Mossamedes 

 and across to Lake Tanganyika and the Zanzibar district of Eastern 

 Africa. 



West Africa. A. Wiener, Esq. [P.]. 



Landana,Congo, Feb., March Shelley Coll. 



(L. Petit). 



Ujiji, Upper Congo, Aug, F. Bohndoi-if [C.]. 



K!assongo, June. F. Bohndorff[C.]. 



Mamboio, E. Africa (Sir J. Shelley Coll. 



Kirk). 



Lamo {Sir J. Kirk). SbeUey Coll. 



Dar-es-Salaam {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



5. Pytelia sharpii. 



Amadina sharpii, Nichols. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 130, pi. x. 



Munia sharpii, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 311. 



Pytelia sharpii, Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 91 (188S). 



