102 PYROMELANA FRIEDERICHSENI 
has been obtained by Mr. Jackson at Toro during the return 
journey from the Ruwenzori Mountains to Victoria Nyanza, 
and specimens have been obtained by Dr. Ansorge at Kasesi 
in Toru and at Fort George on the Albert Nyanza, which have 
been referred to the last species by Mr. Hartert, so P. werthert 
is possibly only a pale variety of P. sundevalli, but two full 
plumaged males procured by the late W.G. Doggett in Uganda 
have yellowish rufous mantles, which is perhaps the most 
constant character for this species. 
Pyromelana friederichseni. 
Euplectes friederichseni, Fisch. and Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 54 
Nguruman. 
Pyromelana friederichseni, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 235 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 839 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 117 (1904). 
Type. Front half of the head, ear-coverts and upper half of the throat 
uniform black like the chest; hinder half of head, neck, back and lower 
throat fire-red ; wings, upper tail-coverts and tail black, with pale brown 
edges to the feathers; under wing-coverts, thighs, vent and under tail- 
coyerts isabelline. Iris brown; bill black; tarsi and feet horny brown. 
Total length 6 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3:2, tail 25, tarsus0'9. ¢, 24. 6. 83. 
Nguruman (Fischer). 
Friederichsen’s Red Bishop-bird inhabits Masailand. 
The species is, I believe, known only by two specimens, 
the type discovered by Fischer at Nguruman in Masailand, 
about 2° 8. lat., 36° 20’ E. long., and a specimen recorded by 
M. Oustalet from Bouré near Witu. 
Pyromelana ansorgei. 
Pyromelana ansorgei, Hartert in Ansorge’s Under Afr. Sun. p. 344, pl. 2, 
fig. 2 (1899) Masindi ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 117 (1904). 
Pyromelana xanthochlamys, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 10 (1902) 
Hoima. 
