59. AMBLTOSPIZ.A. 



501 



PasJta). Total len2;th 6-3 inches, ciilmon 0-7, wing 2-85, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus on. 



//(lb. Equatorial Africa. 



a. 2 ad. sk, Bellima, .lulv 15. Emiu Taslia [P.]. 



(Type of species.) 



59. AMBLYOSPIZA. Type. 



Pyrenestes, pt., and. 

 Aniblyospiza, Sundeo. CEfo. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



] Sol), p. !)S A. albifrong, 



Corypbeo-natluis, Reichenb. Syst. Av. Taf. Ixxx. fig'. C 



(1850) ■ , A. albifrons. 



1. 2. 



1. Head of Amhlijospiza alhifrons, to show culminal ridge. 



2. Bill of Amhlyospiza albifrons from beneatli, to show cliin-ang;le. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



. Ear-coverts and sides of face dark brown like the 



bead and mantle, and throat albifrons, p. 501. 



Ear-coverts and sides of neck black like the throat ; 

 head and mantle black -with a shade of chocolate- 

 brown unicolor, p. 50;1. 



Head and mantle chestnnt ; sides of face and throat 



also cliestiuit. 

 a'. Underparts from the fore neck downward [p. 504. 



blackish mehmonota, 



V . Undeiparts from the fore neck pale slaty grey . . capitalba, p. 504. 



1 , Amblyospiza albifrons. 



Pyrrhula albifrons, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 92. 



Pyrrbnla frontalis, Strains. An. in Menaq. p. 319 (1837). 



IVrcnestes frontalis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pis. 61, 02 (1840) ; 

 'Layanl, B. S. Afr. p. 191 (1867). 



Pyrentsles albifrons, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 360 (1844); Gurney, Ibis, 

 I860, p. 213 : Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 49, no. 0681 (1870) ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 79 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, ]ip. 207, 433. 



