18 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



sented to me by Prof. Barboza du Bocage, and a full account 

 of this species will be found in his 'Orn. Angola/ p. 334. 

 The specimen described is not quite in full plumage, the upper 

 back and crop being only mottled with yellow and red. 



I have much pleasure in naming this South- African species 

 after Mr. J. H. Gurney, in acknowledgment of the able 

 work he has done for the ornithology of those regions. 



124. Ploceus melanotis. 



Ploceus melanotis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 20, Senegal; 

 id. Mag. Zool. 1839, pi. 7. 



Ploceus erythrocephalus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, pp. 71, 

 7Q, Shoa. 



Sycokius melanotis, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 438. 



Ploceus leuconotus, Miill. Naum. iv. 1851, p. 28, Abys- 

 sinia. 



Euplectes pyrrhocephalus , Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 1856^ p. 39. 

 no. 384. 



Ploceus hcematocephalus, Wiirtt. Naum. 1857, p. 433, 

 Fazogl. 



Anapledes melanotis, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 86, pi. 44. 

 fig. 323. 



Malimhus melanotis, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 1871, p. 60. 



Calaphantria melanotis, Fisch. Zeitsch. ges. Orn. 1884, 

 p. 332. 



Calyphantria erijthrogenys, Fisch. & Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, 

 p. 181, Maurui, Pare. 



Hab. N.E., E., and W. Africa. In East Africa between 

 about 14° N. lat. and 4° S. lat. and Senegambia and Casa- 

 manse on the West Coast. 



a, S • March, Lado ; b,,$ . October, Shoa. 



125. Ploceus angolensis. (Plate I. fig. 2.) 



Sharpia angolensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1878, p. 258 ; id. 

 Orn. Angola, 1881, p. 558. 

 Hab. S. Africa : Benguela. 



126. Ploceus kersteni. 



Sycobrotus kersteni, F. & H. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, p. 404. 

 Symplectes kersteni, F. & H. t. c. pi. 6. 



