194 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



Euplectes flammiceps» 



JEuplectes flammiceps, Swains. Birds W. Afr. I. p. 186, 

 pi. 13 ; — Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 127 ; — Boc. Orn. d'Aug. 

 p. 335. 



Pyromelana flammiceps , F. & Hartl. Vög. 0. Afr. p. 414. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Senegal to the R. Quanza; 

 Eastern Africa. 



A series of adult and young birds collected at Grand 

 Cape Mount. 



This is a tolerably common bird in the vicinity of Ro- 

 bertsport. The adult males like to sit on the top of some 

 of the already mentioned cane, where they rest, quite iso- 

 lated from other birds , and even from their females and 

 young ones , for hours on the same spot. They are ap- 

 parently proud of their brilliant plumage as they are in- 

 defatigable in exposing it in the most obvious manner. 



Iris brown, bill of adult black, of young birds flesh- 

 color , as show two specimens , shot in December ; feet 

 flesh-color. 



Ploceus erythrops. 



Ploceus erythrops, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 109; — 

 Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 319. 



Euplectes erythrops , Hartl. Beitr. Orn. W. Afr. pi. 8. 



Foiidia erythrops, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 129. 



Hab. AVest Africa , from Senegambia to the River Quanza. 



Collected at Bendo , near the Fisherman Lake. 



Shot in brushwood , where they live in company with 

 other small birds. They feed on grass seeds and visit the 

 rice-farms when the rice is getting ripe. 



Iris dark brown , bill horn-brown , feet dark flesh-color. 



Nigrita bicolor. 



Pytelia hicolor, Verzeichn. Brem. Saraml. p. 76. 

 Nigrita bicolor, Sclat. in Jard. Contrib. Orn. (1852) p. 34, 



Notes from tlxe Leyden IMuseum, Vol. VII. 



