324 PLOCEIDJ.. 



i', k'. (S 2 ad.sk. Flores {A. R. Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



/'. 2 ad. sk. Florts {A. li. Wallace). Forbes Coll. 



m', n', (5 ; o\p'. J E. Timor. Wallace Coll. 



ad. sk. (Types of .species.) 



q. cJ ad. sk. E. Timor {A. li. Wallace). Gould Coll. 



3. Sporaeginthus subflavus. 



Fringilla subflava, Vieill. X. Diet. cTIIi'<t. Nat. xxx. p. 575 (1819). 

 Fring-illa sanguinolenta, Tenim. PI. Vol. iii. pi. 221. fig. 2 (182.S). 

 Estrelda sanguinoleuta, Stvains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 190 (1837); Licht. 



Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1854) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 252. 

 Amadina sanguiuoleuta, Bes Murs, in LefebiTe's Voy. Ali/ss. p. 173 



(1845) ; Grai/ S,- Mitchell, Gen. B. ii. pi. xc. figs. 2,' 3 (184'J) ; 



Heugl. J. f. 6. 1862, p. 28. 

 Estrelcla siibflaTa, Gray. Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1840) ; Bp. Consp. At: 



i. p. 4G0 (1850) ; Ha'rtl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 144 (1857) ; Layard, B. 



K Afr. p. 200 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 162 ; Gray, Iland-l. 



B. ii. p. 51, no. 6713 (1870); Reichen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 41; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 360 (1881); Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 529; 



Shelley, t. c. p. 555 ; Sharpe, eel. LayarcVs B. S. Afr. pp. 469, 849 



(1884); Fischer ^- Beichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 178; Shelley, Ibis, 



1886, p. 334 ; icl. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 32. 

 Sporajginthus subflavus, Cab, Mus. Hein. i. p. 170 (1850) ; Ileugl. 



J.f. O. 1863, p. 19; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr., App. p. cxxxvii (1870). 

 Pytelia mitcbelli, Beichenh. Singv. p. 24, Tat', xviii. figs. 161, 162 



(1861). 

 Spura?giuthus miniatus, Hciigl. J. f. 0. 1863, p. 167. 

 Estrelda subflava orien talis, Ilem/l. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 11. 

 Habropvga subflava, Hetigl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 609 (1870); Sharjje, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 66 (1871) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 71. 

 Pytelia subflava. Buss, J.f. 0. 1869, p. 78. 



Zonasgintlius subflavus, Beichen. Mitth. Afrik. Ges. i. p. 6 (1880). 

 Ortygospiza polyzona, Butler, Feilden, ^ Beid, Zoologist, 1882, p. 300. 

 Pytelia saoguinolenta, Bohm, J.f. O. 1885, p. 69, 



Aclult male. General colour above olive-brown , rump and upper 

 tail-coverfs crimson ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard- wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky, externally edged with olive- 

 brown ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with olive-brown, the centre ones 

 entirely of the latter colour, the outer ones fringed with white at 

 the ends ; crown of head like the back ; lores and a broad eyebrow 

 dark crimson ; feathers below eye and sides of face orange-yellow, 

 the ear-coverts washed with ashy olive, as also the hinder cheeks ; 

 fore part of cheeks and throat orange-yellow, the throat washed 

 with scarlet on the lower part, which with the fore neck and re- 

 mainder of under surface is scarlet or vermilion ; the sides of body 

 ashy olive or barred with ashy olive and pale red ; thighs olive ; 

 under tail-coverts scarlet ; under wing-coverts ashy olive, with 

 whitish edges ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill 

 scarlet, black along the culmen and symphysis ; feet fleshy ; iris 

 red " (W. A. Forbes)). Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 

 1-65, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-45. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the want of the red 



