GENER.V AM) SPECIES OF RIRDS. 



XXVI. PIONITES, Heine* 



iCaica (iR'c Less.), Siilvad. Cat. B. Brit, Mus 

 XX. p. 358, 1891.] 

 1. melanocephaliis (/>/««.). (p. 358.) 



2. pallidus (Berlepfch). (p. 360.) 



3. leucogatster (A'»/;/). (p. 3(>0.) 



4. xanthomerus (-Si/.), (p. 361.) 



Guiana. 



Upper .\iiinzonia. 



? Coloiiibirt. 



E. Peru. E. Ecuador. 

 Lower Amazonia. 

 Upper Amazonia. 



XXVI I. PffiOCEPHALUS, Swains. 



(Salvad. Cat. B. Brit. Mud. xx. p. 362, 



1. robust us (6' OT.). (p. 363.) 

 •J. fuscicollis ( Kiihf). (p. 364.) 



3. rubricapillus, Forbes if Robinson, Bull. Liverp. 



Mu8. i. p. 15 (1897). 



4. angolensis, Rekhen., J. f. 0. 1898, p. 314. 



5. suahelicus, Rekhen., J. f. O. 1898, p. 314. 



6. gvaielmi {Jard.). (p. 366.) 



7. aubryanus, Souancf. (p. 3<)7.) 



8. maissaicus, Fischer ^ Reichen. (p. 367.) 



1». fuscicapiUiiS (.Verr. 4- Des Murs). (p. 368.) 



1891.) 



S.E. Cape Colony to 

 Zambesi and Angola. 



W. Africa (Togo-land u> 

 Gaboon). 



W. Africa. 



Angola, Damara-luud 

 to Zambesi River 

 and Nyasa-land. 



E. Africa (Kakoma). 



W. Africa (Gold Coast 

 to the Congo). 



W. Africa (Gaboon to 

 Angola). 



E. Africa (Masai-land ). 



£. Africa (Mombasa to 



Nyasa-land). 

 S.E. Africa (Maehona- 



land to Swaxai-land ). 



• It is not often that I liave had occasion to differ from the conclusions of Count 

 Salvadori, whose judgment on vexed questions of nomenclature I have bet"n able to 

 follow in tlio majority of cases, but his argument for tlie adoption of the genus i'uicit 

 seeiu.4 to me to be the best tlmt could liave been employed to secure the rejection i>( 

 tbe name. If be hu«.l not so cleverly explained the complications which surround 

 its adoption, no one would probably have felt any qualms as to ita recognition. 



