352 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



t*. Smaller : wing 2'2 inches ; sides of the 

 hody between the crop-patch and 

 thigh yellow, or mottled with yel- 

 low 102. P. stkta. 



K^. With a yellow collar across the crop .... 103. P. nfra. 



91. Pyromelana flammiceps. 



Euplectes flammiceps, Swains, B. W. Afr. i. 1837^ p. 18G, 

 pi. 13^ Senegal. 



Oryx petiti, Dcs Murs, in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss. 1845- 

 50, p. 112. 



Euplectes craspedopterus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 1856;, p. 30, 

 no. 383. 



Euplectes flaviceps (laps, cal.), Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 106. 



Euplectes pyrrhozana, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 247. 



Pyromelana flammiceps, F. & II. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, 

 p. 414. 



Hah. N.E., E., S.?, and W. Afr., between about 15° N. 

 lat. and lO'' S. lat. From Abyssinia to Lindi on the east 

 coast, and from the Quanza to Senegal on the west. ? Ben- 

 guela {Brit. Mus.). 



92. Pyromelana gierowi. 



Euplectes gierowii. Cab. Oru. Centralbl. 1880, p. 6, Quanza ; 

 id. J. f. O. 1880, p. 106, pi. 3. fig. 2. 

 Hab. W. Afr., Quanza in Angola. 



93. Pyromelana friederichsoni. 



Euplectes friederichsoni, Fisch. & Keichen. J. f. O. 1884, 

 p. 54, Ngaruman. 



Hab. E. Afr., Ngaruman. 



94. Pyromelana orix. 



Grenadier, Edw. Nat. Hist. B. 1743, pi. 178 (fair). 

 Emberiza orix, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 309, ex Edw. 

 Loxia orix, Daud. Traite Orn. ii. 1800, p. 377, Cape. 

 Loxie orix, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 100, pi. 66 (good), 

 Coccothranstes orix, Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 536. 

 Oryx oryx. Less. Traite Orn. 1831, p. 438. 

 Euplectes oryx. Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837, p. 187. 



