Ploceidae of the Ethiopian Region. 311 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper parts olive-yellow. Sides of head white. 



In the male the black of the chin and upper 



throat extends behind the ear-coverts 10, M. sharpii. 



b. With no olive nor yellow on the upper parts. 



¥. Bill not pink. Cheeks and ear-coverts not 

 uniform white. 

 b"^. Lower mandible red, upper one blackish. 

 Upper throat black. Rump and upper 



tail-coverts brown 17. M. nana. 



c^. Both mandibles of the same colour. No 

 black on throat. Head more or less 

 spotted, 

 c^. Underparts nearly white. Rump and 

 upper tail-coverts black. Inner wing- 

 feathers barred 18. M. cantans. 



d^. Head and neck grey. Breast rufous-buff. 



Rump and upper tail-coverts white .... Id. M. caniccps. 

 c\ Bill pink. • Mantle and chest grey. Cheeks 



and ear-coverts white , 20. M. oiizivora. 



16. MUNIA SHARPII. 



Amadina sharpii, Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 130, pi. 10, 

 Abeokuta (type exam.). 

 Hab. W. A£r., Abeokuta. 



17. MuNIA NANA. 



Pyrrhula nana, Pucher. Mag. Zool. 1845, pi. 58, Mada- 

 gascar. 



Spermestes nana, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 454 ; Milne-Edw. 

 and Grandid. Hist. Madag. Ois., Atlas, ii. pi. 183. figs. 1, 3. 



Lepidopygia nana, Reiclib. Singvog. 1861, p. 46, pi. 17. 

 fig. 152. 



Hab. Madagascar. 



18. MuNIA CANTANS. 



Loxia cantans, Gm. S. N. i. 1788, p. 859. 

 Coccothraustes cantans, Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 529. 

 Fringilla cantans, Licbt. Verz. Doubl. 1823, p. 27. 

 Estrelda cantans, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 77. 

 Amadina cantans, Gray & Mitchell, Gen. B. ii. 1849, 

 p. 370. 



