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and sides of the chest with cinnamon, and thus the blue of 

 the throat is detached into a collar; iris and bill red; legs 

 black. Total length 4'8 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*15, 

 tail 2-4, tarsus 0*6. 



The specimen before me is not in very good condition, but 

 I have described it because the figure of this species (J. f, O. 

 1879, pi. 2. fig. 1) is very misleading. The collar in the Somali 

 specimen is broader than in the illustration and lower down, 

 being only separated from the blue of the breast by two or 

 three feathers, and all the blue parts are uniform in colour 

 and ultramarine. The original description is fair. 



"Not uncommon in small flocks throughout the tableland. 

 Iris red, bill coral-red, feet black." 



42. Pyromelana franciscana. 



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

 Berlin, ix. 1789, p. 332, pi. 9. 



Fringilla ignicolor, Hempr. & Ehr, Symb. Phys. 1828, 

 pi. 2. 



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

 Shire valley). 



Euplectes ignicolor, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 109 (Unyoro). 



Eiiplectes franciscanus, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 571 ; 

 Hartl. Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 103 (Lado) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1884, p. 184 (Shoa). 



Pyromelana franciscana, Finsch & Hartl. Vdg. Ostafr. 

 p. 412. 



Hab. E. and W. Africa : E. Africa from the Second 

 Cataract of the Nile, 22° N. lat., to Unyoro 1° N. lat., and 

 also from the Shire valley ; in W. Africa from the Gold 

 Coast to Senegambia. 



'' Only plentiful on the Webbe Shebeyli in the cornfields, 

 where it frequently assembles in large flocks of from fifty to 

 one hundred." 



43. Textor dinemelli. 



Tea-tor dinemelli, Horsf. in Rlipp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, 

 pp. 72, 7Q, pi. 30; Gray & Mitchell, Gen. B. ii, pi. 87; 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 109 (Unyamuezi) ; Heugl. Orn. 



