316 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



h. Bill with the entire cutting-edges of both man- 

 dibles broadly edged with orange-red ; sides 

 of the head and upper tail-coverts bright red, 

 of the same shade as the throat ; no portion of 

 the crown nor centre of the forehead washed 

 with red in either sex. 



b^. Abdomen uniform black 25. S. guttata, cS . 



c\ Abdomen black, spotted or barred with white S. guttata, § . 



24. SpERMOSPIZA HiEMATINA. 



Loxia heematina, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 102, pi. 67, 

 Africa. 



Coccothraustes hcematina, Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 534. 



Spermophaga cyanorhyncha, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837^ 

 p. 164. 



Spermospiza hcematina, Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 43 

 (part.) . 



Spermospiza guttata, Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 384, $ , Fantee. 



Hab. W. Afr., Abeokuta to Senegambia. 



a. March, Cape- Coast Castle (;S/ie//ey). b. March, Wassaw 

 {Shelley Mus.). 



25. Spermospiza guttata. 



Loxia guttata, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 103, pi. 68, $ , 

 Congo. 



Coccothraustes guttata, YieiW. N, D. xiii. 1817, p. 533. 



Fringilla pustulat a, Yoigt (nee 111.), Cuv. Thierr. ii. 1831, 

 p. 581. 



Spermospiza guttata, J. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1852, 

 p. 312. 



Spermospiza hcematina, Oust. Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 1879, 

 p. 113, Ogowe. 



Hab. W. Afr., Congo to the Gaboon, 



8. Cryptospiza. 



1884. Cryptospiza, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Type. 



Gen. 1884, p. 180 C. reichenoivi. 



So far as I can judge from a hasty examination of the 

 type of Cryptospiza reichenowi, which is mounted in the 

 Berlin Museum, I think it is rightly placed in a genus by 



