266 PYTELIA PHG@NICOPTERA 
Pytelia phoenicoptera. 
Pytilia phoenicoptera, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 203, pl. 16 (1837) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 301 (1890) ; Butler, Foreign Finches in Captivity, 
p- 149, pl. 29, fig. 2 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 436 (1896) ; 
Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 161 (1904). 
Estrelda erythroptera, Less. Echo du Monde Sav. 1844, p. 295 Gambia. 
Subspecies a. 
Pytelia phoenicoptera emini, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1899, p. 413 Lado ; 
Reichen, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 161 (1904). 
Adult male. Upper parts brownish grey, with the rump and upper tail- 
coverts crimson-shaded scarlet; tail black, with the outer webs of the 
feathers washed with red; wings dark brown, with broad crimson scarlet 
outer edges to all the feathers, which colour extends over nearly the whole 
of the lesser coverts; under wing-coverts white, with scarcely a trace of 
ashy brown bars; quills with the inner edges slightly paler; sides of head 
and neck, chin and throat nearly uniform grey, with only a few narrow 
indistinct whitish bars showing on the upper and lower throat; remainder 
of the under parts ashy grey, with white bars to the feathers, increasing in 
width towards the under tail-coverts. ‘Iris red; bill black; tarsi and feet 
reddish brown.” Total length 4:1 inches, culmen 0-45, wing, 2°25, tail 1:5, 
tarsus 0°55. Gambia (Whiteley). 
Subspecies P. emint. 
Differs only in the under wing-coverts being much more distinctly barred. 
Total length 48, culmen 0:45, wing 2:3, tail 1:6, tarsus 0°6. o, 16. 8. 84. 
Lado (Emin). 
The Black-billed Red-winged Pytelia, including P. emind, 
ranges from Senegambia and the Gold Coast into the Upper 
White Nile district. 
The type of the species and the type of Hstreld 
erythropterus both came from Senegambia. It is repre- 
sented in the British Museum by two specimens, one from the 
Gambia, and the other obtained by Emin at Lado on the Upper 
White Nile. Dr. Reichenow records it from Accra, and inland 
at Gambaga it has been met with, but according to Mr. Boyd 
Alexander it is not common there. At this latter place Capt. 
W. Giffard procured a male and female in July and August, 1889, 
