45. ANAPLECTES. 411 



elongated bill and differently formed nostril, however, show that the 

 style of colouring is only a case of external resemblance. 

 Hah. Equatorial Africa to the Victoria Nyanza. 



a-e. (S ad. et juv. ; f-h. Wadelai, August. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



$ ad. sk. 



45. ANAPLECTES. 



Type. 



Anaplectes, Reivhenb. Sinc/v. p. 86 (ISlJl) A. melanotia. 



Sharpia, Bocm/e, Joni. Lisb. 1878, p. 258 A. angolensis. 



Bill of Anaplectes rubriceps, to show nostril. 

 Range. Confliled to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With red on the head and throat. 



«. With no black on the chin or sides of face ; 



primaries externally yellow i-ubriceps cS , p. 411. 



b. With black on the chin and sides of face. 

 a . A patch of black on the ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks red ; outer aspect of primaries 



orange-yellow gunieyi (^ , p. 412. 



b'. Cheeks and ear-coverts black ; outer 



aspect of primaries red melanotis (S , p. 413. 



b. With no red on the head and throat. 



c . Back streaked with white ; median wing- 

 coverts tipped with white, forming a 

 baud ; upper tail-coverts yellowish ; 

 throat white anyolensis, p. 413. 



d . Back ashy grey as also the upper tail- 

 coverts ; head yellow, as well as the 

 outer aspect of the primaries and the 

 ends of the median coverts ; throat also 

 yellow , rubricej}s J , p. 411. 



1 . Anaplectes rubriceps. 



Ploceus rubriceps, Simdev. (Efv. K. Vel.-Ahad. Flirh. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 97 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 17. 

 Sycobius rubriceps, Bp. Consp. i. p. 438 (1850). 

 Anaplectes rubriceps, Beiclienb. Sinyv. p. 87 (1861). 

 Maliiubus rubriceps, Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 466, pi. xiii. tig. 2 ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 444 (1884) ; W. Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 59. 

 Sharpia ayresi, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 353, pi. vii. fig. 2. 

 Calvphantria rubriceps, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1885, p. 373. 



Adult male. General colour above dusky brown, washed with pale 



