278 CRYPTOSPIZA REICHENOWI 
the males, and dusky in the females. Dr. Reichenow further 
records it from Kikuyu, and doubts C. australis from Nyasaland 
being distinct from OC. salvadorti; but as that has not been 
proved to be the case, I have retained the former as a separate 
species. 
Cryptospiza reichenowi. 
Pytelia reichenowi, Hartl. Ibis, 1874, p. 166 Bondongo ; Reichen. J. f. O. 
1875, p. 41, pl. 2, fig. 1 Camaroons. 
Cryptospiza reichenowi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 254; Shelley, B. Afr. 
I. No. 378 (1896); Reichen. V6g. Afr. iii. p. 174 (1904). 
Cryptospiza ocularis, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 8 (1902) Ruwenzorv. 
Cryptospiza elize, Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 38 (1902) Fer- 
nando Po. 
Adult male. Head and neck olive green, paler and yellower on the chin 
and throat; a large patch of deep scarlet surrounds the eye and extends to 
the side of the bill; back, scapulars and upper tail-coverts crimson ; wings 
and tail blackish brown, with some edges to the inner coverts and inner 
secondaries crimson, like the back; breast, thighs and under tail-coverts 
dusky olive, paler and yellower down the centre of the chest; flanks 
crimson. ‘Iris black; bill slaty black; feet brown’’ (Alexander). Total 
length 4-4 inches, culmen 0:45, wing 2:15, tail 1-7, tarsus 0°65. g, 10. 2.02. 
Ruwenzori (Jackson). 
Adult female. Differs in having no red on the side of the head, which 
is pale olive, fading into buff in front of the eyes. Wing 2:1. Camaroons 
(Preuss). 
Reichenow’s. Crimson-wing ranges from Fernando Po 
through Camaroons to the Ruwenzori Mountains. 
The occurrence of the species in Fernando Po was first 
made known by Mr. Boyd Alexander, who procured, near 
Bakaki, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, the type of C. elize, an 
adult male, and two immature males, “similar to the adult, 
but lacking the red round the eyes and on the lores, the latter 
being buffish brown, while the carmine red on the back, rump, 
