412 ri.ocEro.E. 



vermilion on the mantle, the feathers being of the latter colour, 

 M'ifch dusky-bi'own edges ; scapulars, lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ashy brown; wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, margined with yellow, brighter on 

 the primaries, the inner secondaries edged with ashy ; tail-feathers 

 ashy brown, with olive-yellow margins ; head all round, the hind 

 neck, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, fore 

 neck, and chest scarlet vermilion ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, 

 and flanks, as ■well as the thighs and under tail-coverts, white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, washed with yellow near 

 the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3-35, tail 1-95, 

 tarsus 0'75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being olive-yellow where 

 the male is red, but the yellow does not come so far over the chest 

 as the scarlet does in the male : " bill orange ; feet flesh-colour ; 

 iris reddish brown " (W. Ayres). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 

 0'7, wing 3'1, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Young male (type of Sharpia ai/resi). Similar to the old female, 

 but rather brighter olive-yellow, blackish on the base of the fore- 

 head, the lores, and rotmd the eye : " bill bright dark gamboge- 

 yellow ; tarsi and feet light ash-colour ; iris dark brown " (J. S, 

 Jameson) 



Bab. S.E. Africa. 



a. (^ ad. sk. Limpopo Eiver (J. Wahlherr/). ' Sharpe Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Umzeila's Countrv, N.E. of J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



Transvaal ( W. Ayres). [P.]. 



c. c? juv. sk. Makara Kiver, Dec. 10 (J. S. Shelley Coll. (Type 



Jameson). of S. ayresi.) 



2. Anaplectes gurneyi. 



Sycobius rubriceps (nee Su7idev.), Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. 1877, p. 275 ; 



id. Orn. Anyola, p. 334 (1877-81). 

 Ploceus gumeyi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1887, p. 17, pi. i. fig. 1. 



Male, not quite adult (type of species). Similar to A. rubriceps, 

 but with yellow on the back, not red : the head deep scarlet, as also 

 the throat ; a spot on the chin black, as well as the base of the 

 cheeks ; the lores, the feathers round the eye, and the ear-coverts 

 black: "bill orange-yellow; feet reddish; iris brownish red" 

 (J. Anchieta). Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3-35, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. S.W. Africa. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Caconda, Benguela (/. An- Shelley Coll. (Type 



chieta). of species.) 



