284 PYRENESTES OSTRINUS 
consisted of a heap of dead reed-leaves, and were hidden in 
the forks amongst the thick foliage, at the height of about 
four feet. A narrow aperture, on one side of the nest, leads 
into the interior, which is lined with soft grass. The eggs, 
generally six in number, are pure white and measure 0°68 x 
0°52. In one instance the fresh nest was built on the top of 
an old one. 
He justly remarks, that the fact of his never having seen 
nor collected a male with black plumage, though he observed 
the colony during several days, and got a series of undoubted 
adult males. females and young specimens, is strongly in 
favour of P. coccineus being a good species. He afterwards 
collected seven specimens at Oldfield on the Mussurad River, 
and adult males at Shieffelinsville and Gallilee Mountain, but 
never saw one in the black plumage. 
Pyrenestes ostrinus. 
Loxia ostrina, Vieill. Ois. Chant. p. 79, pl. 48 (1805, bad). 
Coccothraustes ostrinus, Vieill. Gal. Ois. p. 70, pl. 60 (1825, good). 
Pyrenestes ostrinus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 252 (1890 pt.) Niger ; 
Emin, J. f. O. 1894, p. 170; Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 336 egg; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 356 (1896); Reichen. J. f. O. 1897, p. 38 
Togo ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125 egg, Chinchonxo ; Hartert, Nov. 
Zool. 1891, p. 341 Niger; Reichen. J. f. O. 1902, p. 36 Togo; id. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 106 (1904 pt.). 
Pyrenestes coccineus (non Cass.), Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c. p. 25 
(1875) Gaboon ; Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Z. France, 1878, 
p. 74 Landana ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 253 (1890) Gold Coast, 
Gaboon, Leopoldville, Tingasi ; Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 166 Yambuya; 
Reichen. J. f. O. 1890, p. 123 Camaroons ; Oberholser, Pr. U.S. 
Mus. xxii. p. 17 Camaroons ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, p. 45 Sesse Isl. 
Pyrenestes personatus (non Du Bus), Reichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 41 
Gaboon; 1887, p. 305 Leopoldville ; 1890, p. 123; 1896, p. 33 
Camaroons. 
Adult male. Head, neck, lower back, upper tail-coverts, edges of the 
tail-feathers, crop and sides of body uniform glossy crimson; upper surface 
