498 PLOCEID^. 



y, z. (S ad. sk, E. Bengal. Hume Coll. 



a'-e . Ad. sk. E. Bengal. India JMuseiim. 



/'. 2 ad. sk. Sookpur, Feb. 2. Iluiiie Coll. 



'(/'. $ <ad. sk. As,sam (McClelland). India Mu.seum. 



h', i' . 2 ad. sk. Dibruglmr, Assam, June, Hume Coll. 



July {J. li. Cripps). 



k' . (S hiem. sk. Bliamo, Feb. Dr. J. Anderson [C.]. 



I'-u'. cJ ad. ; v'-.v'. Lower Pegu, March to May, Gates Coll. 



2 ad. et juv. sk. Aug., Sept. (^B. W. 0.). 



y', s', cJ ; ». 2 ^^- Lower Pegu, March, April, Forbes Coll. 



sk. Sept. {E. W. 0.). 



i3. 2 ad. sk. Thatone, Tenasserim, Nov. 2 Hume Coll. 



( TV. Davison). 



y. S ad. sk. Khykehto, Feb. 10 ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Beeling, Feb. 11 ( W. D.). Hume Coll. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Java. Purchased. 



^-6, (S ad. sk. Java {Hor^eld), India Museum. 



(Types of species.) 



I. 2 ad. St. Java. . Purchased. 



58. SPERMOSPIZA. 



Type. 

 Spermophaga, Swains. B. W. Afr, i. p. 164 (wee Schdnh. 



1833) S. hsematina. 



Spermospiza, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 43 S. hsematiua. 



Jiange. West Africa, but reoccurring in the forest-region border- 

 ing the Albert Nyanza. 



Key to the Species, 



a. Abdomen black like the back. (Males.) 



a. Lower rump and upper tail-coverts black like 

 the back ; tip of under mandible only yellow 



or reddish hcematina, p. 498. 



6'. Lower rump and upper tail-coverts bright 

 crimson ; lower part of upper mandible and 

 greater part of lower mandible towards the 



end reddish guttata, p. 500. 



h. Abdomen dark ashy, spotted with white. {Females.) 

 c'. Head dark ashy ; lores and eyebrow crimson. 

 a". Upper tail-coverts dull crim.son ; bill as in 



the male hcematina, p. 498. 



h". Upper tail-coverts bright crimson ; bill as in 



the male guttata, p. 500. 



d'. Head entirely crimson rubricajnlla, p. 500. 



1. Spermospiza haematina. 



Loxia haematina, rieill. Ois. Chant, p. 102, pi. 67 (1805). 

 Coccothraustes haematina, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 534 



(1817). 

 Spermophaga cyanorhynchus, Sivains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 165 (1837) ; 



Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 9. 

 Spermospiza haematina. Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 43; id. Gen. B. 



ii. p. 356 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 450 (1850) ; Verr. Rev. et Mag. 



