282 PYRENESTES SANGUINEUS 
Pyrenestes sanguineus. 
Pyrenestes sanguineus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 156, pl. 9 (1837). 
Pyrenestes ostrinus (non Vieill.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 252 (1890 
pt. 2) Senegambia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genoy. 1901, p. 776, 
Bulama Isl. 
Pyrenestes personatus, Du Bus, Bull. Acad. Brux. xxii. p. 151 (1855) 
Senegal. 
Adult. Head, neck, lower back, upper tail-coverts, front and sides of 
the breast glossy crimson; upper surface of tail very strongly washed with 
crimson; remainder of the plumage brown, with a shade of red near the 
under tail-coverts. Iris brown; bill glossy blackish blue; tarsi and feet 
dark brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 2°8, tail 2:4, tarsus 0°8. 
Gambia River. 
Swainson’s Notch-billed Weaver ranges from Senegambia 
to Sierra Leone. 
The type of P. personatus is in the Brussels Museum, 
labelled ‘‘ Senegal.’ In the British Museum there are four 
specimens, all from the Gambia, and I have not seen any other 
examples of this large species, but believe the type came 
from Sierra Leone, for Hartlaub records a specimen from 
that locality in Swainson’s collection. 
On the island of Bulama, Fea procured two males and a 
female all in the brown plumage which caused Count Salvadori 
to express his doubt as to their belonging to the same species 
as P. ostrinus (Vieill.). 
Pyrenestes coccineus 
Pyrenestes coccineus, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1848, p. 67 Sierra Leone, 
Monrovia ; id. Journ. Philad. Acad. i. p. 242, pl. 31, fig. 2 (1848) ; 
Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 253 (1890 pt.); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 
357 (1896). 
Adult male. Rather pale chocolate brown, with entire head, rump, 
upper tail-coverts, throat, front and sides of breast glossy crimson; upper 
