26. coccoPYGiA. 305 



7. Pytelia nitidula. 



Estrelda nitidula, Hartl. Ibis, 1865, p. 269 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 60, 110. 0691 (1870) ; Skarpe, ed. LayariVs B. S. Afr. p. 472 



(1884). 

 Amadina liartlaubi, Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosmnb. xviii. p. 324, pi. iv. 



fig-. 2 (1867). 

 Pytelia liartlaubi, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 469 (1884). 

 Pytelia nitidula, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 319. 



Adult. Olive-green, the rump and upper tail-coverts yellowish 

 green, with an anteocular spot of orange-buff, extending also round 

 the base of the mandible ; under wing-coverts varied with olive and 

 whitish, the abdomen prettily spotted with rounded white spots 

 surrounded with black ; tail and wings olivaceous ; biU black : feet 

 lead-colour. Total length 3" 2'", bill 3|"', wing 1" 9'", tail 1" 2'", 

 tarsus 6'". {Hartlauh.) 



Hob. Natal to Mozambique. 



a. S imm. sk. Durban, Natal i^Gordge). SheUey Coll. 



26. COCCOPYGIA. 



Type. 



Neisna, Bp. Consp. i. p. 460 (1850) C. subflava. 



Coccopygia, Reichenb. Singv. p. 23 (1861) C. dufresnii. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Throat black dufresnii S , P- 305. 



b. Throat grey. 



a'. Abdomen and under tail-coverts pale fulvous 



or isabelline buff dufresnii 2 j P- 305. 



b'. Abdomen yellow ; under tail-coverts isabelline 



buff; sides of body green quartinia, p. 307. 



c . Abdomen and under tail-coverts deep oclira- 



ceous kilimensis, p. 307. 



1. Coccopygia dufresnii. 



? Hed-rumped Finch, Broion, III. Zool. p. 70, pi. xxix. (1776). 



Fringilla dufresnii, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Uist. Nat. xii. p. 181 (1817) ; id. 

 Enc. Meth. iii. p. 989 (1823). 



Friugilla erytbronotus, Vieill. t. c. p. 242 (1817, e.v Temm. MSS.). 



Fringilla melanotis, TeniDi. PI. Col. iii. pi. 221. fig. 1 (1833). 



Estrelda melanotis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 368 (1849). 



Estrelda dufresnii, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1849) ; Bp. C'onsi). i. 

 p. 460 (1850) ; Hart/. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 142 (1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1862, p. 32; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 197(1867); Gurney, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 162 ; Gray, Hand I. B. ii. p. 51, no. 6703 (1870) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 65 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 107 ; Bocaye, Orn. 

 Angola, p. 361 (1881) ; Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. pp. 469, 

 849 (1884) ; SheUey, Ibis, 1886, p. 330. ' 



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