338 ANAPLECTES MELANOTIS 



KEY TO TflE SPECIES. 



a. With red margins to the quills. 



fti. With red on the head and neck Males in full flwnagc. 



a". Cheeks and chin black. 



a^. Mantle paler, ashy brown . . mdanotis. ^ ^ H 



b^. Mantle darker, brownish black . . . blundclli. ^^2 



b". Cheeks and chin red crythrogenys. ' J" P 



b^. No red on the head ; crown brown . . . . Males in ivinter, females 



and young birds. 



b. With yellow margins to the quills. 



c^. With red on the head and throat .... Males in fall plumage. 

 C-. Less black on chin and sides of head ; ear- 

 coverts entirely red rubriccps. -" v / 



d-. More black on chin and sides of head ; ear- 

 coverts mostly black ... ... gurneyi • ^ 



d^. Head and throat yellow Males in winter, females 



and young birds. 



Anaplectes melanotis. (Pi- 37, vars., tigs. 2, 3.) 



Ploeeus melanotis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 20 Senegal ; id. Mag. Zool. 



1839, pi. 7. 

 Anaplectes melanotis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 413 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 476 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 128 (1899) egg : 



Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 258 Upper Gallaland ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. 



p. 26 (1904). 

 Ploeeus erythrocephalus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers, pp. 71, 76 (1845) Shoa. 

 Ploeeus leueonatus, Miill Naum. pt. iv. p. 28 (1851). 

 Euplectes pyrrhocophalus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers, p. 39 (1856) nom. nud. 

 Ploeeus h£ematocephalus, Wiirtt. Naum. 1857, p. 433 Fazogl. 



Var. a. 

 Anaplectes bluudelli, Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 132 Beni Schongul ; Reicheu. 



Vog. Afr. iii. p. 28. 



Var. b. 

 Calyphantria erythrogenys, Fisch. and Eeichen. .J. f. 0. 1884, p. 181 



Maurui, Pare, Lado. 

 Anaplectes rufigena, Shelley, B. Afr. II. p. 341 (1900) Chiuta. 



Adult male. Forehead, crown, neck and front of chest vermilion ; back 

 and upper tail-coverts brownish ash, often mottled with red on the fore- 

 mantle and upper tail-coverts ; tail slightly browner, with red edges to the 

 feathers ; wiugs dark brown, with red edges to the quills, greater coverts 

 and ends of the median coverts, the pale edges fading into white on the 

 inner feathers ; inner edges of quills and the under wing-coverts whitish. 



