356 PLOCEID^. 



h. With no white on the rump. 

 c. With white on the belly. 



c". Back distinctly lined with white shaft- 

 streaks ; tail-feathers washed with golden 

 or straw-yellow. 



e'" . Throat and breast black leucogastra, p. 362. 



/'". Throat and breast chocolate -brown .... everetti, p. 363. 

 cl' . Back scarcely perceptibly Uued with white ; [p. 363. 



no golden or straw-yeUow on the tail .... leuco(/astroides, 

 d'. Belly black. 



e" . Black, with no white shaft-streaks or lines, fuscans, p. 364. 

 /". Chocolate-brown, mottled with tiny white if^.^gfiggi^j^n p 3(34 

 shaft-streaks at the end of the feathers ■ ■ I j f-u'^' ope:' 

 e . Belly white, thickly mottled with spots and ' * iV- 



bars of black ; tail black ; upper tail-coverts \ pectoralis, p. 365. 



straw-yellow | kelaarti, p. 366. 



c. With the rump white, barred with black ; back 



light brown ; breast white, barred -with black 1 molucca, p. 367. 

 vermiculatious | propinqiia, p. 368. 



1. Uroloncha caniceps. 



Pytelia caniceps {nee Snlvad.), Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 139; 



id. S)- ScJialow, J. f. O. 1879, p. 326 ; Fischer ^ Reichen. J. f. O. 



1879, p. 352, Taf. ii. fig. 3. 

 Spermestes caniceps, Hartl. Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 203 



(1882); Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 136; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 71. 

 Mimia caniceps (nee Salvad.), Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 312. 



Adult male. General colour above pinkish brown or pale reddish, 

 the scapulars brown ; lower back more ashy brown ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white ; wing-coverts brown ; bastard-wing black ; 

 primary-coverts brown ; quills black, the secondaries browner 

 towards the ends, the inner ones entirely brown ; tail-feathers black, 

 the outer ones whitish towards the ends ; crown of head slaty grey, 

 more ashy on the nape and hind neck ; forehead slightly mottled 

 with whitish tips to the feathers ; lores black ; feathers round eye, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and chin dusky grey, profusely 

 mottled with white dots, the latter with narrow blackish bars ; 

 lower throat and sides of neck slaty grey ; fore neck and under 

 surface of body pinkish brown, becoming paler on the lower breast, 

 abdomen, and under tail-coverts, which parts are more isabelline ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries like the breast with whitish 

 edges ; quills below dusky, ashy rufous along the inner edge : 

 " upper mandible dark grey, the under one clear bluish grey, darker 

 at the point; feet lead-colour; iris brown" (G. A. Fischer). Total 

 length i-7 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-35, tail 1"7, tarsus 0-55. 



Ifab. East Africa, ranging into Equatorial Africa. 



a. c? ad. sk. Tarrangole, Equatorial Africa, April Shelley Coll. 



23 (Fmin Pasha). 



2. Uroloncha acuticauda. 



Munia acuticauda, Hodgs. Asiat. Research, xix. p. 153 (1836) ; id. 

 Icon. ined. Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 283. figs. 1 , 2, pi. 307. fig. 3 



