98 PYROMELANA SUNDEVALLI 
Pyromelana sundevalli. 
Euplectes sundevalli, Bp. Consp. i. p. 446 (1850) S. Afr. 
Pyromelana sundevalli, Alexander, Ibis, 1899, p. 567 Zambesi. 
Pyromelana nigrifrons, Bohm, J. f. O. 1884, p. 177; 1886, pl. 2, fig. 2 
Karema; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 233 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. 
No. 342 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ili. p. 122 (1904). 
Pyromelana oryx (non Linn.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. 110 Mapicuti ; 
Marshall, t. c. p. 241 Mashona. 
Male in breeding plumage. General colour bright scarlet, of a duller 
and more rufous shade on the mantle; scapulars with broad angular 
blackish centres ; the black of the head is restricted to the front half of the 
crown, sides of head, sides, and occasionally the centre of the chin; chest 
and middle of abdomen black ; wings and tail dark brown, with narrow pale 
edges to the feathers ; under wing-coverts, inner margins of the quills, and 
the thighs rufous butf. Ivis dark brown; bill black; legs light brown. 
Total length 4:7 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 2:5, tail 1:5, tarsus 0°75. Zambesi 
(Kirk). 
Females and males in winter. Similar to those of P. franciscana. 
Wing 2:5. 9, 18. 1.99, Zumbo (Alexander); ¢g, Cheringoma District 
(Cavendish). 
The Red Bishop-bird inhabits Eastern Africa between the 
Limpopo River and Victoria Nyanza. 
The type was from~ Wahlberg’s collection, labelled 
“ Caffraria,” and was described by Bonaparte as similar to 
P. orix, but smaller. 
The most southern range known to me for the species is 
Mapicuti in the Cheringoma district near Beira, in about 
20° 8. lat., where it has been procured by Mr. Cavendish. A 
specimen obtained by the late Mr. F. Oates, at Hope Fontein 
near Gulubeweyo, is in the British Museum, and belongs to 
this species, so that this is doubtless the form met with 
in Mashonaland, where, according to Mr. Guy Marshall, it is 
“very local, but plentiful wherever large reed-beds are found. 
There are few prettier sights than the male in his courting 
flight, floating with feathers puffed up and quivering wings 
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