478 PLOCEIDiE. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Under tail-coverts black. 



a'. Forehead crimson like the rest of the crown. 

 a". No crimson on the throat or fore neck ; 

 the whole under surface black. 



a'". Head and neck crimson ruhricollis S > V- ^'^^^ 



h'" . Head and neck scarlet or Termilion . . hartletti J , p. 479. 



b". Entire tJiroat and chest crimson malimhicus cj', p. 480. 



c". Throat black; fore neck and chest crimson cassini cj'jp. 482. 

 b'. Forehead with a broad black band ; hind i ruhricollis 5 , p. 479. 



head and neck crimson j hartletti 5 , p. 479. 



c'. Forehead black like the rest of the upper 



surface ; bill with more or less shining white nitem, p. 481 . 



b. Under tail-coverts scarlet scutat.us, p. 482. 



c. Under tail-coverts yellow ; head scarlet ; hind 



neck yellow ; fore neck scarlet; chest yellow rachvlue, p. 483. 



1. Malimbus rubricollis *. 



Tanagra malimbica 2, Dmid. Ann. du Mus. i. p. 151, pi. 10. fig. 2 



(1802). 

 Malimbus cristatus 2 , Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 71, pi. 43 (1805). 

 Ploceus cristatus J , Vieill. N. Diet, xxxiv. p. 129 (1819). 

 Fringilla textrix, Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 24, note (1823). 

 Ploceus rubricoUis, Srvains. An. in Menag. p. 306 (1837). 

 Euplectes rufovelatus, Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 142; Alkn ^j- Thomps, 



Ed-ped. Niffer, ii. p. 500 (1848) ; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pi. 4(3 ( 1849). 

 Sycobius ruhricollis, Gray, Gen. B. ii, p. 352 (1849); lleiehenb. 



Sint/v. p. 90, pi. 61. figs. 332-334 (1861) ; Bocae/e, Orti. Atujola, 



p. 332 (1881). 

 Ploceus rufovelatus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849). 

 Ploceus textrix. Gray, t. c. p. 352 (1849). 

 Malimbus rubricoUis, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1851, p. 133 ; Elliot, Ibis, 



1876, p. 461. 

 Sycobius malimbus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 438 ; Terr. Her. et Maq. de 



Zool. 1851, p. 419 ; Lieht. Nonmiel. p. 50 (1854) ; Hartl. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. 133 (1857); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1850, p. 135; 



Hartl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 257. 

 Textor rufovittatus (!), Ei/ton, Cat. Coll. p. 245 (1856). 

 Sycobius nuchalis, Elliot ,^ Ibis, 1859, p. 393. 



Malimbiis textrix (pt.), Gray, Hund-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6604 (1870). 

 Malimbus occipitalis (!), Gray, t. c. p. 43, no. 6609 (1870) t- 

 Sycobius rufovelatus, Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soe. Zool. France, iii. 



p. 75 (1878). 

 Malimbus malimhicus (pt.), Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 40 ; Bartl. Monog. 



Weaver-B. pt. iv. p. 1 (1889, pt.). 



* This species has not the smallest title to the name of M. malimbiciis. 

 Daudin gave that name to the bird afterwards called M. eristatuf, and if it is 

 to be revived, the latter spet^ies must bear it. He wrongly identified the present 

 species as the female. Swainson was the fii-st naturalist who recognized that 

 the supposed female belonged really to a different species. 



i' Mr. Elliot apparently presented the type of bis S. nuchalis to the British 

 Museum with the MSS. uame of *S'. occipitalis, which he never published. 



