Ploceidfe of the Ethiopian Region. 353 



Euplectes sundevallii, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 446, Caf- 

 fraria. 



Euplectes pseudoryx, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 56, pi. 23. 

 figs. 200-202. 



Euplectes edwardsi, Reichb. torn. cit. p. 57, ex Edw. 



Euplectes petiti, Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 322, Zambesi and 

 Shire. 



Pyromelana oryx, F. & H. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, p. 410. 



Ploceus oryx, Woodward, Zoologist, 1875, p. 4397. 



Pyromelana sundevalli, Holub & Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Slidafr. 

 1882, p. 117. 



Hab. S. Afr. : the whole of S. Afr. 



95. Pyromelana franciscana. 



Loxia franciscana, Isert, Schrift. Gresell. Nat. Freunde 

 Berlin, ix. 1789, p. 332, pi. 9 (fide Finsch & Hartl.). 



Loxia ignicolor, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 92, pi. 59 

 (good), Senegal. 



Fringilla ignicolor, VieilL N. D. xii. 1817, p. 198. 



Euplectes ignicolor. Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837, p. 184. 



Fringilla oryx, Dubois, Orn. Galerie, 1839, p. 44, pi. 29. 



? Euplectes oryx, Des Murs, in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss. 

 1845-50, p. 111. 



Euplectes franciscanus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, p. 128, 



Pyromelana franciscana, Finsch, J. f. 0. 1869, p. 336. 



Hab. N.E., E., and W. Afr., between about 15° N. lat. to 

 5° S. lat., south to Myamusi in East Africa, and to the Gold 

 Coast and Niger on the west coast. 



96. Pyromelana ntgrifrons. 



Pyromelana nigrifrons, Bohm, J. f. O. 1884, p. 177, 

 Karema. 



Hab. Central Africa, Karema on Lake Tanganyika. 



97. Pyromelana nigriventris. 



Euplectes nigriventi'is, Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1848, p. 66, 

 Zambesi; id. Journ. Ac. Philad. 1849, p. 242, pi. 31. fig. 1. 



Euplectes, sp. ?, Licht. Nomencl. 1854, p. 49, Mosam- 

 bique. 



