PYROMELANA AUREA zfs) 
Very similar to P. wanthomelas in size and colouring, but differing from 
it and the other two allied species in the bill being slightly more slender. 
Lower mandible pale, upper one black; under surface of quill with broad, 
rather obscure, rufous buff inner edges; thighs mostly pale brown. Male: 
total length.4°8 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 2°9, tail 1-9, tarsus 0:95. Female: 
wing 2°9, tarsus 0°85. 
Burton’s Black and Yellow Bishop-bird is probably confined 
to the highlands of Camaroons. 
Here the species was discovered by the late Sir R. Burton, 
in the mountains, at 7,000 feet, and Sir Harry Johnston pro- 
cured a fine series of specimens at elevations ranging from 
8,000 to 10,000 feet. More recently Dr. Preuss has met 
with it at Buea, so that it has not been recorded from a lower 
elevation in that country than 7,000 feet. 
Iam inclined to regard the species as a very local form, 
representing its extremely near ally, P. wanthomelas, in the 
highlands of Camaroons. 
Mr. Boyd Alexander refers a female specimen he pro- 
cured at Kwobia on the Gold Coast to this species, and 
Swainson, under the heading of Hwuplectes capensis (B. W. 
Afr. i. p. 180) writes: “‘ We suspect that the full plumage is 
not acquired even after the first moult; for although the bird 
is common to Senegal and other parts of Africa, specimens 
usually seen are in immature plumage.” These notes may 
belong to this species, but it appears to me quite as probable 
that they refer to P. xanthomelas. 
Pyromelana aurea. 
Loxia aurea, Gm. 8. N. ii. p. 846 (1788). 
Pyromelana aurea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 235 (1890) ; Shelley, Ibis, 
1886, p. 354, pl. 9, fig. 2; id. B. Afr. I. No. 338 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 113 (1904); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1904, p. 82 Sé. 
Thomas Isl. 
Euplectes aurinotus, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 310 (1838). 
