268 PYTELIA HYPOGRAMMICA 
Heuglin’s Red-winged Pytelia inhabits Abyssinia from 
8° to 14° N. lat. 
In the most southern range known for this species Lord 
Lovat shot the two specimens I have above described at Lake 
Chercher and the Didera River between Zeila and Shoa, in 
about 8° N. lat. It is, as far as we know, confined to Abyssinia, 
and is a very rare bird there. In the country between the 
Blue Nile and the Atbara River, Heuglin procured two speci- 
mens, including the type from Dembea, and remarked that 
they lived in flocks, with other small Weavers, frequenting the 
clumps of bamboos and the neighbouring pools. Prince Paul 
of Wiirtemburg’s collection contained a specimen from Fazog], 
on the label of which he had written “ Mringilla polyzona,” a 
name uselessly published by Heuglin in 1867. 
Pytelia hypogrammica. 
Pytelia hypogrammica, Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 56 Fantee ; id. Cat. B. M. 
xiii. p. 802, pl. 12, fig. 2 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 438 (1896) ; 
Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 341 Niger ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 161 
(1904). 
Adult female. Like the adult male of P. phenicoptera in the colouring of 
the bill, head, neck, body, tail, legs and feet, but differs in the wing having 
the outer edges of the feathers deep yellow. Total length 3-8 inches, 
culmen 0:45, wing 2°2, tail 1:4, tarsus 06. ¢@, 26. 2. 72. Abokobi 
(Shelley). 
Adult male. Differs from the female in having the forehead, sides of 
head, chin and upper throat crimson-shaded scarlet, and the centre of the 
crown mottled with red ends to the feathers; the pale bars on the breast 
and under tail-coverts are narrower. Total length 4:4 inches, culmen 0°45, 
wing 2:2, tail 1:6, tarsus 0°6. Type, Fantee (Higgins). 
The Black-billed Yellow-winged Pytelia ranges from the 
Gold Coast to the Niger. 
In the British Museum there are: the type discovered by 
