31. SPOILffiGINTHUS. 319 



Adult (type of s])ecies). General colour above light ochrcous 

 brown ; scapulars like the back ; rump black ; upper tail-covorts 

 glossy purplish black ; lesser wing-coverts glossy purplish black ; 

 median and greater coverts dark chocolate-brown ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quiUs black, the inner secondaries chocolate- 

 brown ; tail-feathers black, glossed with purple on the edges ; crown 

 of head and nape glossy purplish black, as well as the lores, sides 

 of face, feathers round eye, and ear-coverts ; cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of body pure white : thighs, under tail-coverts, 

 under wing-coverts, and axillaries also white ; quills below brown, 

 light ashy along the inner edge. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 2"15, tail 1-55, tarsus 0'55. 



Hah. From Fernando Po and Gaboon to the Congo. 



a. Ad. sk. Fernando Po. L. Fraser [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. (S ad. sk. Chinchouxo, Congo, April 2 Shelley Coll. 



(Dr. Lucan). 



c. Ad. sk. Laudaua. L. Petit [C.]. 



7. Nigrita uropygialis. 



Nigrita uropygialis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. ;j84, pi. 11. fig. 1 ; Grat/, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 6654 (1870) ; kl. Cat. Afi: B. p. 61 

 (1871) : Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. .306. 



Adult (type of species). Similar to jSi.pinaronota, but differing in 

 the pale ochreous-buflf band across the lower back and rump. Total 

 length 3"9 inches, culmen 0'4, wing '2, tail 1*9, tarsus 0"55. 



Youm/. Differs from the adult in being duller in colour, the head 

 sooty black without any gloss, and the white underparts washed 

 with ochreous buff. 



Hab. Confined to the Gold Coast. 



31. SPOR.aiGINTHUS. 



Type. 

 Sporseginthus, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 170(1850). . . . S. amandava. 



Amandava, Reichenb. Singv. p. 1-5 (1861) S. amandava. 



Melpoda, Reichenb. t. e. p. 26 (1861) S. melpoda. 



Range. Indian Peninsula ; Burmese countries. Malayan Penin- 

 sula ; Java ; Flores ; Timor. 



