80 PYROMELANA AFRA 
Adult male. Head, throat and breast jet black; hinder half of the neck 
and nearly the whole of the back bright orange yellow; the ends of the 
feathers of the lower back broad and square, with narrow black margins ; 
lower rump and upper tail-coverts dark brown with paler edges; wings and 
tail black, with some buffy brown edges to the feathers ; under wing-coverts, 
inner edges of the quills, thighs, lower abdomen and the under tail-coverts 
buffy white. Iris; tarsi and feet brown; bill blackish. Total length 5:4 
inches, culmen 0:65, wing 2°75, tarsus 0'8. Quanza R. (Brit. Mus.). 
The Golden-backed Bishop-bird inhabits the Island of St. 
Thomas and probably ranges from Gaboon into Benguela. 
On the Island of St. Thomas Mr. F. Newton has collected 
a number of specimens, and informs us that it is known as the 
** Que-blancana-janilo,” so we may presume it to be abundant 
there. I find very little definite information regarding its 
occurrence on the African continent. Gujon brought a speci- 
men to Paris in his collection from Gaboon. In the British 
Museum there are three examples, two labelled “* W. Africa” 
and the other ‘‘ Quanza River.” This latter skin was formerly 
in my own collection, but I never knew the collector’s name. 
The type of the species, figured by Brown under the name of 
the *‘Golden-backed Finch,” was supposed to have come from 
Benguela, and that locality is probably correct, for M. Furtado 
D’Antas’s collection, which was mostly composed of specimens 
from that country, contained an unlabelled example of the 
present species. 
Pyromelana afra. 
Loxia afra, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 857 (1788). 
Pyromelana afra, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 241 (1890) ; Butler, Foreign 
Finches in Captivity, p. 298, pl. 54 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 
246 (1896); Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 124 (899) egg ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool. 1901, p. 844 Niger; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 116 (1904). 
Loxia melanogastra, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 394 (1790) Africa. 
Fringilla carunculacea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 23 (1828) Senegambia, 
Worabée, Vieill. Ois. Chant. p. 52, pl. 28 (1805). 
