CLYTOSPIZA MONTEIRI 297 



Clytospiza monteiri. 



Pytelia monteiri, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. Ill, pi. 161 Bembe. 



Clytospiza monteiri, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 451 (1896). 



Lagouosticta monteiri, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 273 (1890). 



Pitylia stictiUcma, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 213 Leopoldc'dlc. 



Hypargos monteiri, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 158 (1901). 



Adult 7nale, type. Entire head and the neck dark grey, with a vermilion 

 stripe down the lower half of the throat ; back and wings browner ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts glossy crimson ; tail uniform brownish black ; under 

 surface of the quills dusky brown, with paler and more sandy buff inner 

 edges ; under wing-coverts buff, barred with pale cinnamon ; crop and 

 breast deeper cinnamon, with large round twin-spots, which meet and form 

 bars on the middle and lower breast ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, banded 

 with white. " Iris brown ; bill blackish; tarsi and feet reddish" (Bmin). 

 Total length -l-S inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-25, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-65. 

 Bembe (Monteiro). 



Adult female. Differs only in having a band from the chin down the 

 centre of the throat white, tinted with rufous towards the crop. Wing 

 2-25. ? , 11. 11. 82. Kudurma (Emin). 



Immature. Entire throat dark grey ; only a few spots on the crop and 

 fore-chest, remainder of breast barred cinnamon and white. <? , juv. 1. 11. 85, 

 Foda (Emin). 



Monteiro's Weaver ranges from the Wadelai district of 

 the Upper White Nile into Caraaroons and Angola. 



In the British Museum there are four of Emin's species 

 from Foda and 'fangimoro, near Wadelai and westward from 

 Kudurma and Tangasi. Its occurrence in Camaroons was first 

 made known by Dr. Zenker, who found it frequenting the 

 grassy country interspersed with trees near Jaunde. 



Falkenstein met with the species in Loango at Chin- 

 chonxo, and Lucan and Petit at Landana; some hundred miles 

 distant from Leopoldsville, where the type of Pytelia stictilsema 

 was procured by Bohndorff, who also obtained the species 

 further up the Congo at Kassongo. 



The type, an adult male, was discovered by Mr. Monteiro 

 at Bembe in Angola, where he was informed by the natives 

 that these Weavers live in flocks. 



