Gl. DINEMELLIA. 507 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with lighter brown edges 

 to the feathers of the back and mantle ; rump ami upper tail-coverts 

 scarlet ; some of the scapulars edged with white ; lesser wing- 

 coverts blackish, with a patch of scarlet near the edge of the wing; 

 median coverts brown ; greater coverts brown, edged narrowly with 

 white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and ([uills blackish brown, 

 the secondaries edged with white, the primaries white at the base, 

 forming a conspicuous patch ; tail-feathers blackish brown ; crown 

 of head, hind neck, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, 

 and entire under surface of body white ; thighs black ; under tail- 

 coverts scarlet ; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish brown ; 

 quills below brown, the basal half of the wing white. Total length 

 7'7 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 4-9, tail 3, tarsus 1'2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7'8 inches, 

 culmen 0*85, wing 4'5, tail 3, tarsus 1*25. 



Hub. Upper Nile districts to Equatorial Africa and Shoa and 

 south to the Zanzibar district. 



a. Ad. sk. Soudan (Enoblecker). Shelley Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Shoa {Sir W. E. Harris). India Museum. 



(Type of species.) 



c. <S ad. sk. [Abyssinia.] Sharpe Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. Shoa, Feb. 1842 {Sir W. C. India Museum, 



Harris). 



e. c? ad. sk. Shoa, Aug. 14 (O. Antinori). Shelley Coll. 

 /,.</. Ad. sk. iiom?iY\-L&r\A(E.Lort Phillips). Shelley Coll. 



/*. (S iid. sk. Liido, March 22 (Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



i. Ad. sk. Masai-Land {J. Thomjjson). Shelley Coll. 



k. S ad. sk. Ukambani, Feb. 25, 1877. Dr. J. M. Ilildehrandt 



[C.]. 

 I. S ad. sk. Useri River, July. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 m. Ad. sk. Mamhoio {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



2. Dinemellia boehmi. 



Alecto dinemellii {nee Riipp.), Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 109. 



Textor dinemelli {nee Riipp.), Bohm, J.f. O. 1883, p. 196 ; Schaloio, 



t. c. p. .301. 

 Textor boehmi, Reichen. J. f. O. 1885, p. 372, 1887, p. 07 ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1887, p. 44 ; Matschie, J.f. O. 1887, p. 154. 

 Textor (Limoueres) boehmi, Reichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 67. 



Adult female. Similar to D.dienemelU, but altogether darker and 

 of a more uniform chocolate-brown, and easily distinguished by the 

 absence of white edgings to the scapulars, greater wing-coverts, and 

 inner secondaries : " bill brownish grey ; feet brownish black ; iris 

 brown ; bare space round the eye black "' {R. Bohm). Total length 

 7'8 inches, culmen 0"95, wing 4'9, tail 3, tarsus 1-2. 



Hah. Lake districts between the Victoria Nyanza and Western 

 Masai-Land. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Gouda, Oct. 23 {R. Bohm). Shelley Coll. 



