45. ANAPLECXF.S. 413 



3. Anaplectes melanotis. 



Ploceus melanotis, Lafr. Rev. Zoul. 1839, p 20; id. Mag. de Zool. 



1839, pi. 7 ; Shelley,' Ibis, 1887, p. 18 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 34. 

 Ploceus erythrocephaliis, JRiipp. Si/st. Uebers. pp. 71, 76 (1845); 



Heuijl. 8i/sf. Uebers. p. 38 (1856). 

 Hvpliautornis melanotis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849); id. Hand-l. 



'B. ii. p. 42, no. 6589 (1870). 

 Hj'phautornis erythrocepbalus, Gray, t. c. p. 351 (1849). 

 Sycobius melanotis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 438 (1850) ; Horsf. c^* Moore, 



Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. ii. p. 520 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 133 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 257 ; Heiu^. J. f. O. 1862, 



p. 25; Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 66 (1864); Heugl.'Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. p. 535 (1870); Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. 



p. 101 (1881); Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Xr7e«, xxxi. p. 150 (1881), 



xxxii. p. 506 (1882) ; Bohm, J. f. O. 1883, p. 197. 

 Ploceus leuponotus, Midi. Naum. 1852, part iv. p. 28. 

 Euplectes pyrrliocephalus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 38 (1856). 

 Ploceus pyrrliocephalus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 39 (1856). 

 Ploceus hffimatocephalus, fVilrtt. Naum. 1857, p. 433 ; Heugl. J. f. 



O. 1867, p. 298. 

 Anaplectes melanotis, Beichenh. Singv. p. 86, pi. 44. fig. 323 (1861) ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. cxxxviii (1871); Salvad. Ann. 



Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 194 (1884); Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. \\. 



p. 337 (1887); Salvad. Ann.Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) vi. p. 296 (1888). 

 Malimbus melanotis, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 60 (1871) ; Elliot, Ibis, 



1876, p. 465. 

 Calyphantria melanotis, Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 332 (1884) ; 



Ri'ichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 68. 

 Calyphantria erythrogeuys, Fischer ^- Reichen. J.f. 0. 1884, p. 181 ; 



Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 332 (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to A. rubriceps, but with the edges to the 

 wing-coverts, quills, and tail rosy instead of yellow ; the head rosy 

 crimson, as well as the throat and chest ; the chin, cheeks, lores, 

 and ear-coverts black: "bill red, with the cutting-edges and the 

 angle of the mouth fiery yellow ; feet rosy red ; iris umber-brown " 

 {Von Heuglin). Total length 5'3 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3"45, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Bab. Seuegambia to North-eastern Africa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Senegambia. 



c. Ad. sk. Sboa {Sir W. C. Harris). India Museum. 



(Type of P. erythrocephalus.) 



d. (S ad. sk. Kolla of Ballanu, Oct. 24 {A.' An- Shelley Coll. 



tinort). 



e. c? ad. sk. Lado, Equatorial Africa, March 13 Shelley Coll. 



{Emin Pasha). 



f. (S ad. sk. Redjaf, Jan. 9. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



4. Anaplectes angoleusis. 



Sbarpia angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1878, p. 258 ; id. Orn. Angola, 



p. 558 (1881). 

 Ploceus angolensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 18, pi. i. fig. 2. 



Adult. General colour above chocolate-brown, mottled with 



