318 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



Hypargos verreauxi, lleiclib. Singvog. 1861, p. 22, pi. 6. 



fig. 49. 



Hypargus margaritatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard^s B. S. Afr. 

 1884, p. 476. 



Hab. S. Afr., Cape Town. 



29. Hypargus monteiri. 



Pytelia monteiri, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. Ill, pi. 161, 

 Bern be in Angola. 



Hab. N.E. and W. Afr. : Upper White Nile, about 5° N. 

 lat., and from Angola to the Loango Coast. 



a, ? . November, Kudermo {Emin Bey), b,^; c, $ . Lan- 

 dana {Shelley Mus.). 



10. Pytilia. 



1837. Pijtilia, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 202, Type. 



note P. jjhoenicoptera. 



1837. Pytelia, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 280. P. jyhoenicoptei'o,. 

 1851. Zonogastris, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 



p. 172 P. melba. 



1861. Marquetia, Reichb. Singvog. p. 48 . P. melba. 



Pytilia and Lagonosticta run very naturally into each 

 other, and show their affinities to Hypargus mostly in the 

 pattern of the colouring of the underparts of some of the 

 Pytilia and in the upper parts of the Lagonosticta. 



Pytelia cajjistrata, Hartl., I refer to under the genus 

 Estrelda. 



I have not seen a specimen of P. lineata. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Upper parts entirely olive ; underparts pale 



olive, many of the breast-feathers with dusky 



centres, each enclosing two large white spots . 30. P. nitidula. 



b. Breast black, boldly spotted with white in the 



male ; entire plumage olive in the female ; 



bill red 31. p. schlegeli. 



c. Breast barred ; rump and upper tail-coverts and 



portion of the tail red ; bill uniform red or 

 slaty grey. 



