104 PYROMELANA FLAMMICEPS 
feet brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 3:0, tail 2-0, tarsus 
0:95. 
Gierow’s Bishop-bird inhabits Angola. 
The type was sent to Berlin in one of Mr. Schiitt’s 
collections from Angola, where it was procured by Mr. Gierow 
in the interior near the Kuango River, in about 7° S. lat. and 
18° EK. long. It belongs to the same group as P. ansorgei and 
P. flammiceps, which are, all three, readily distinguished by 
the black under wing-coverts from the other members of the 
genus. 
Eup i -Tes 
Pyromelana flammiceps. 
Euplectes flammiceps, Swains. B. W. Afr. i, p. 186, pl. 13 (1837) Senegal. 
Pyromelana flammiceps, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 228 (1890); Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 295, pl. 55 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. 
I. No. 338 (1896); Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 124 egg; Reichen, Vog. 
Afr. iii. p. 118 (1904); Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1904, p. 83 St. Thomas Isl. 
Loxia (Euplectes) petiti, Des Murs in Lefebvre’s Voy. Abyss. p. 112, pl. 
10, fig. 1 (1850). 
Euplectes ‘“ craspedopterus, Schiff.” Bp. Consp. i, p. 446 (1850) Abyssiua. 
Huplectes flaviceps, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 106 (laps. cal.). 
Kuplectes pyrrhozona, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 247 Abyssinia. 
Male in breeding plumage. Crown, entire neck and lower half of back 
orange scarlet; mantle and upper tail-coverts more rufous; sides of head, 
chin, upper throat and often the front of the forehead jet black; scapulars 
scarlet shaded fawn-colour with black angular centres; wings and tail black, 
both above and below, with a trace of buff margins to the centre tail-feathers, 
secondaries and ends of the median wing-coverts ; breast velvety black, with 
the sides of the abdomen fawn-colour ; thighs and under tail-coverts rufous 
buff. Iris brown; bill black; tarsi and feet reddish brown. ‘Total length 
5:2 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 3:0, tail 1:7, tarsus 0:85. Sierra Leone. 
Adult female. Upper parts mottled blackish brown, with pale brown 
edges to the feathers; under surface of the wing uniform dusky black; 
a broad buff eyebrow ; cheeks and ear-coverts pale brown, and very slightly 
streaked, like the sides of the neck; chin, upper throat and centre of the 
breast white, shading into buffy brown on the lower throat, front and sides 
of breast, which parts are striped with dark brown centres to the feathers ; 
thighs and under tail-coverts more uniform rufous buff. Ivis brown; bill, 
