PYROMELANA LADOENSIS 85 
Pyromelana ladoensis. (Pl. 29. fig. 1.) 
Euplectes ladoensis, Reichen, J. f. O. 1885, p. 218 Lado. 
Pyromelana ladoensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 244 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 347 (1896); Reichen, Vég. Afr. iii. p. 115 (1904). 
Male in breeding plumage. Very similar to P. taha, but slightly smaller. 
It differs often, but not always, in having more yellow on the sides of the 
body, which in some specimens are entirely bright yellow. ‘Iris brown; 
bill black ; legs shrimp brown’”’ (Jackson). Total length 4:3 inches, culmen 
0:5, wing 2:2, tail 1-4, tarsus 0°65. g. 11.8.79. Lado (Emin). 
Adult female. Similar to that of P taha ; eyebrows slightly shaded with 
yellow ; scarcely any dark shaft-stripes near the crop. ?, 28. 6.81. Lado 
(Emin). 
The Lado Yellow-crowned Bishop-bird inhabits British 
Hast Africa and the White Nile. 
The most western range known for the species is the Nile 
Valley. Emin records it as abundant near Lado, where he 
procured the type. In the British Musenm there are, from 
this locality, five males in full breeding plumage, shot in June 
and July. These are most interesting as they show that the 
amount of yellow on the sides of the chest is variable, and that 
the small size is the only reliable character by which the 
species can be distinguished from the South African P. taha 
and the Abyssinian P. stricta. In the British Museum there 
are also—a specimen obtained by Capt. Dunn at the mouth 
of the Zaref River, and three of Mr. Hawker’s from within 
twenty miles of Fashoda. Mr. Hawker found the species 
fairly common in flocks, with P. franciscana and other allied 
species, in March and April, when it was in the brown winter 
plumage. 
From British East Africa I have seen two of Mr. Jackson’s 
full plumaged males; they are like P. taha in colouring, but 
both have the wing-measurements only 2°2 inches, so that 
they belong to P. ladoensis, and Dr. Sharpe writes: “ This is 
