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QUELEA ERYTHROPS 117 
According to Heuglin it is migratory in Kordofan, Sennaar, 
Southern Nubia and Takah, arriving there with the first 
summer rains, travelling southward in September and October ; 
and he met with numbers of these birds along the White Nile 
in January. 
Capt. Dunn has procured the species at the Zeraf River, 
and Mr. Hawker found it abundant at Fashoda in flocks, along 
with Hyphantornis teniopterus. In the British Museum there 
are specimens from Kordofan (the most western range known 
to me for the species), from Sennaar, Bejook, Ailat and 
Maragaz. This latter specimen is in the Q. russi plumage. 
Dr. Blanford writes: “ Only met with in Northern 
Abyssinia; it was first seen at Ailat, and occurred abundantly 
in the Anseba Valley. It was several times seen feeding on 
insects, and even pursuing winged ants and catching them 
in the air. It was always in flocks, and did not appear to be 
breeding in the rains.” 
Quelea erythrops. 
Ploceus erythrops, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 109 St. Thomas Isl. 
Quelea erythrops, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 255, pl. 10, fig. 1 (1890) ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 354 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 111 
(1904). 
? Fringilla erythrocephala, Les Murs in Lefebvr. Voy. Abyss. p. 119 (1850). 
Quelea capitata, Du. Bus, Bull. Acad. R. Brux. xxii. pt. 1, p. 151 (1855) 
Senegal. 
Foudia hematocephala, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 250 Bongo. 
Adult male. Similar to Q. quelea, from which it differs in having the bill 
blackish and the entire head and upper half of the throat crimson, shading 
almost into black on the chin and down the centre of the throat. ‘Iris 
brown ; bill blackish, with the base of the lower mandible pale ; tarsi and feet 
reddish brown.” Total length 5:1 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 2°55, tail 1:5, 
tarsus 0°75. 3, 3.6.86. Kibero (Emin). 
Adult female. Very similar to that of Y. quelea, but may be readily 
distinguished by the bill being dark brown, with the under mandible paler. 
Wing 2-4. §, Gaboon (Du Chaillu). 
