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Pyromelana scioana, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 241 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 348 (1896). 
Pyromelana taha intercedens, Erlanger, Orn. Monatsb. 1903, p. 23 
Arusi ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 115 (1904). 
Male in full plumage. Similar to P. taha, from which it differs in 
being larger, and in having the yellow patch on the sides of the chest 
smaller, sometimes absent. ‘‘ Iris chestnut; bill black; feet dusky.”’ 
Total length 5:7 inches, culmen 0:55, wing 2°75, tail 1:75, tarsus 0°75. 
¢,18.8.77. Shoa (Antinori). 
The Abyssinian Yellow-crowned Bishop-bird inhabits 
North-east Africa. 
The species can best be distinguished from P. ladoensis, in 
all its plumages, by its larger size (wing over 2°5 inches), and 
apparently it replaces that bird to the east of the Nile, in 
Abyssinia, Shoa and Somaliland. 
Heuglin discovered the species in the Semien district and 
named it in 1856 EHuplectes strictos, but it was first described 
in 1857 by Hartlaub. The type, being in the brown winter 
plumage, was put aside as undeterminable in the Berlin 
Museum, until Dr. Reichenow pointed out that from the wing- 
measurement, viz., 2°64 inches, it must belong to the large form 
described as Huplectes scioanus by Salvadori (1884). Heuglin 
met with the species in winter at Lake Tana in Abyssinia 
and among the highlands of Semien and the surrounding 
country, where it was resident, and usually seen in parties 
of from three to eight individuals, frequenting the low bushes 
and hedges of the pasture-land. In August he saw them in 
the breeding plumage. 
In Shoa Antinori found these Bishop-birds apparently 
breeding at Tuor-Hamesh from June to September, when he 
procured ten specimens, including the type of Huplectes scio- 
anus, all of which were males, and Dr. Ragazzi has obtained 
the species at Sutta. In Southern Abyssinia Mr. Pease 
collected two males in winter plumage at Ounji in February, 
