78 PYROMELANA PHCNICOMERA 
South Angoniland, Malosa and Chanda, and according to Sir 
Alfred Sharpe, it is known to the natives as the “ Chiunga.” 
Capt. Storms procured the species on the western side of 
Lake Tanganyika, and specimens have been collected by Bohm 
at Karema; by Fischer at Lindi, in Ugogo and the Usambara 
countries, along the Pangani River, at Mombasa, Lamu and 
Susua. Mr. Oscar Neumann met with it at Donje-Nai, 
Magila, Kikuyu, Moschi and Umbugwe. 
Mr. Jackson found the species fairly plentiful in the Teita 
country and along the hill-sides at Elgeyu, where it was breed- 
ing in July and August. ‘‘ Eggs, two or three. Nest in long 
grass, and made of fine dry grass, very scantily constructed, 
with a sort of porch made of the seed-heads of grass.” At 
the Eldoma Ravine in November he met with the species in 
small flocks and found “the young birds of the year, moulting.” 
He also observed the species near Naiwasha Lake, Nandi, and 
on Mount Elgon at an elevation of 6,000 feet in December. 
Its occurrence in Somaliland is known to me only by an 
immature specimen obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith at 
Budda. On the neighbouring border of Abyssinia, Lord Lovat 
shot a specimen at Waha-Zinzero, and Mr. Pease others at 
Adis Ababa. In Shoa twenty-seven specimens have been 
collected by Antinori and Dr. Ragazzi, so it must be abundant 
throughout that district. The typical specimens were pro- 
cured in Central Abyssinia by Ruppell. Heuglin met with 
these Weavers in the highlands of Wagara up to an elevation 
of 10,000 feet, and in the Upper White Nile district Antinori 
found them in the country of the Kidj Negroes. 
Pyromelana phcenicomera. 
Euplectes phcenicomera, Gray, Ann. v. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) x. p. 444 
(1862) Camaroons. 
Pyromelana phcenicomera, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 239 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No 336 (1896). 
Euplectes capensis phcenicomerus, Reichen. Vég. Afr, iii, p. 127 (1904). 
