125 
from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 
apparently an immature male and female without any traces 
of orange on the shoulder. These specimens are a valuable 
addition to the Museum collection, the only example there 
being an adult male. 
[A very local bird, but in large numbers where it is found. 
On our westward journey from Addis Abbeba to Dabous we 
passed through country inhabited first by this species, then, 
during a few days’ march, we saw only Penthetriopsis macro- 
cerca } and then once more U. traversi only was met with, 
the Long-tailed Weaver, Penthetria laticauda, remaining 
constant throughout.-—L.] 
17. Pyromelana eranciscana. 
Pyromelana franciscana (Isert) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xiii. p. 233 (1890) ; id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 464. 
a. A juv. Hado, Abyssinia, 24 December, 1898. (No. 24.) 
b. <J. Lake Harrar Meyer, Abyssinia, 1 January, 1899. 
(No. 65.) 
c. ? . Lake Harrar Meyer, Abyssinia, 1 January, 1899. 
(No. 73.) 
d. A • Lake Chercher, Abyssinia, 12 January, 1899. 
(No. 164.) 
a. Iris, bill, and legs brown. 
b. Iris orange ; bill dusky ; legs light. 
c. Iris light brown ; bill dusky ; legs light. 
d. Iris brown; bill light; legs light. 
Specimens b and d are beginning to show some of the 
black feathers of the breeding-plumage on the breast. 
[Always in large flocks about the dhurra-fields.—L.] 
18. Pyromelana xante omelana. 
Pyromelana xanthomelana (Rupp.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xiii. p. 239 (1890) ; id. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 464. 
a. Waha Zinzero, Abyssinia, 4 February, 1899. 
(No. 288.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs dark. 
19. Ploceipasser melanorhynchus. 
Pfoceipasser melanoi'hynchus (Rupp.) ; 
Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 246 (1890). 
Sharpe, Cat, B. 
