4S4 PLOCEID^. 



b' . Head crimson ; feathers round the eye black, 



extending above the ear-coverts rubra * , p. 485. 



6. With yellow on the head. 



c\ Forehead and vertex only yellow ; nape and 



occiput like the back ; sides of face and 



throat ashy brown, washed with yellow . . seychellarum *, p. 486. 

 d' . Head entirely yellow, as well as the sides of 



the face, throat, and chest sakalava, p. 487. 



1. Nesacanthis eminentissima. 



Foudia eminentissima, Bp. Consp. i. p. 446 (1850) ; ReieJienh. Siiigw. 



p. (9 (1801): J. Vcrr. Konr. Arch. Mus. iii. p. 7, pi. 2. fig. 2 



(1867); Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. 8. Afr. p. 467 (1881). 

 Foudia madagascariensis (nee L.), Scl. Ibis, 1804, p. 299. 

 Ploceus algondte, Schl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 423 (ex Pollen, MSS.) ; id. 



^ Poll. Faun. Madaq., Ois. p. 109, pi. 34 (1808) ; Grai/, Hand-l 



-B. ii. p. 45, no. 6027 (1870). 



t'phf 



Hartl. Vofj. Ostufr. p. 400'(1870). 

 Calyphantria algondis, Finsch Sf Hartl. t. c. p. 406, note (1870). 

 Ploceus eminentissimus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 45, no. 0022 (1870) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 18s7, p. 15. 

 Ploceus comorensis, Gray, t. c. p. 45, no. 6028 (1870). 

 Foudia algondfe, Hartl Voy. Maday. p. 216 (1877); E. Newt. 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 300 ; Shellq/, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 677. 

 Foudia comorensis, Hartl. Voy. Maday. p. 217 (1877). 

 Foudia consobrina, Milne-Fdw. Sf Oust. C. R. Acad. Sci. vol. ci. 



p. 222 (1885). 

 Ploceus (Foudia) algondse, iid. N. Arch. Mus. (2) vi. Bull. p. 268 



(1888). 

 Ploceus (Foudia) anjuanensis, iid. t. c. p. 271. 

 Ploceus ( Foudia) consobrinus, iid. t. e. p. 271, pi. 9. 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive, uniform on the 

 rump and lower back, the rest of the back having blackish centres 

 to the feathers ; wings and tail blackish, all the feathers edged with 

 olive ; lower rump with a scarlet patch ; head all round crimson, 



* These species have much more slender bills than N. eminentismma and 

 N. sakalavct, but may be considered thin-billed representatives of the genus. 



Nesacanthis fusco-fulvus. 



Bniant de I'isle de Bourbon, Batdjent. PI. Enl. t. pi. 321. fig. 2. 

 Fringilla bruante, P. L. S. Midi. Syst. Nat. Anbaug, p. 164 (1776) ; Cass. 



I'roc. r&ildd. Acad. 18G4, p. 254. 

 Emberiza fusco-fiilva, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 20 (1783). 

 Emberiza borboniea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 886 (1788). 

 Foudia borboniea, Reichenb. Sinyv. i. p. 69 (1861). 

 Foudia bruante, E. Ncwton, Trans. Norf. ^- Narw. Nat. Soc. 1889, p. 548. 



This species seems to be extinct. Cf. Sir E. Newlon (Trans. Norfolk and 

 Norwich Nat. Soc. 1889, p. .543). It has generally been considered identical 

 with Foudia madayascariensis. 



