— 2()2 — 



JVoie. — For reasons whv the name />et/it Des Murs is rejected 

 for this race in favour of the above see Ogii.vie-Grant (l. c). 



Pyromelana franciscana 



Luxifi francisCiUia Iskrt., Schrift. Ges. Nat. freunde, Berlin, 

 1718, p. 332. — iype localitv : Guinea. 



Kemp obtained a spécimen of the Red-throated Bishop-bird at 

 Agoiilerie in Jnlv ànd \ve hâve other examples in the British 

 Muséum collection from Southern Nigeria as tollows : Abeokuta 

 (Robin cf. Nicholson, P. Z. S., 1878, p. 130) and from Abutchi 



(W. A. FORBES). 



From Northern Nigeria it is represented from Rabba (Forbes); 

 Jebba in june (C. Christv); Ilorin in June (Brvant); Takum and 

 Ibi in june (B. Alexander); Gongola River in Julv 1904 

 (B. Alexander); Lake Chad in March 1905 (B. Ai.exander). 



Range. — Pxromelana franciscana extends right across Africa. 

 We hâve examples in the British Muséum from the toUovving 

 localities : 



West Africa : from Gambia, Portuguese Guinea, Gold Coast, 

 Sierra Leone, N. and. iS. Nigeria. 



North Central Africa : from French Equatorial Africa (L. Chad 

 and Shari River) and the Sudan. 



East Africa : from Abvssihia, Somaliland, Kenva Colonv, 

 Uganda and the Lake district, Eastern Belgian Congo (Semliki 

 vallev). 



Pyromelana afra. 



Loxia afra Gmei.in, Svst. Nat., II, 1789, p. 857. — Tvpe localitv : 

 Africa. 



Robin Kemp shot a séries of the Vellow-crowned Black-bellied 

 Bishop-bird in Southern Nigeria at Agoulerie in Julv and Septem- 

 ber 1905. 



