CRYPTOSPIZA SALVADORII 277 
beyond the end of the tail. Plumage with some red on the wings, rump 
and upper tail-coverts; tail entirely black as in Nigrita. 
Type. 
Cryptospiza, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genoy. 1884, p.180 . . C. reichenowt. 
The genus is confined to Tropical Africa, and comprises five species. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. Flanks with bright crimson; lower mandible blackish like 
the upper one. 
a1, No greyish black on the under parts. 
a?, Under parts olive green; males only, with sometimes a 
peaeh of red on the sides of the head. 
. Under tail-coverts tinted withred . .. . . . salvadorii. 
5 No red on under tail-coverts . . . . reichenowit. - 
62. Under parts brown, with apes any olive Shade . . australis. > 
61, Under parts greyish black. . . 2 6 8 Oo 4 OO 0 Week 
6. Flanks cinnamon; lower mandiblered. . . . . . . .« shelleyi. 
Cryptospiza salvadorii. 
Cryptospiza salvadorii, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, pp. 187, 221 Siotalit ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 379 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Atte iii, p. 174 
(1904). 
Type. Head, neck and under parts dusky olive; throat yellower; back, 
upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts and edges of the inner secondaries crimson ; 
sides of body washed with crimson ; under tail-coverts slightly tinted with 
red; under wing-coverts dull yellowish; tail black. “ Ivis hazel; bill black; 
tarsi and feet reddish; eyelids bare and red.” Total length 4:1 inches, 
culmen 0°4, wing 2°3, tail 1°7, tarsus 0-7. 3, 23.9. 79. Siotalit (Antinori). 
Female. Similar to the male in plumage, but with the eyelids dusky 
(Antinori). 
Salvadori’s Crimson-wing inhabits Eastern Africa between 
8° S. lat. and 10° N. lat. 
In its most southern range the species has been met with 
by Dr. Stuhlmann at Uluguru. Antinori discovered the type 
at Siotalit in Shoa, and remarks that the sexes are distinguish- 
able in colouring only by the eyelids, which are bright red in 
