310 
Captain G. E. Shelley on the 
15. Spermestes bicolor. 
Amadina bicolor , Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 145, Cape 
Palmas; id. Zool. Typ. pi. 50. fig. 2. 
Spermestes bicolor , Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 454. 
? Amadina poensis, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, p. 148 (part.) 
Casamanse. 
? Spermestes poensis , Rochebriine, Faun. Senegamb. 1884, 
p. 248. 
Hab. W. Afr., from the Gold Coast to the Bulama Islands 
and probably Senegambia. 
a. February, Abouri {Shelley). 
4. Munia. 
1836. Munia , Hodgs. As. Research, xix. Type- 
p. 153 . M. rubronigra. 
1850. Padda , Reicbb. Syst. Nat. pi. 76 . . M. oryzivora. 
1851. Oryzornis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 1851, 
p.172. M. oryzivora. 
1851. Urolonga , Cab. t. c. p. 173 . . * . M. cantans. 
1861. Eudice , Reicbb. Singvog. p. 46, pi. 16. 
figs. 146-149 . M. cantans. 
1861. Lepidopygia , Reicbb. t. c. pi. 17. fig. 
152. M. nana. 
This genus, as I have employed it, may have somewhat the 
appearance of a refuge for the destitute. It is not a very 
sharply defined group, but I consider it more advantageous 
to keep these five species together than, as I should other¬ 
wise have done, to divide them into five genera, which would 
follow each other in the same order in which I have placed 
the species. I have examined good specimens of all these 
forms, and do not find distinguishing characters of sufficient 
importance to render their generic separation imperative, 
and they appear to me to constitute a group sufficiently 
easily recognizable not to be confounded with any other of 
the genera that I have employed. 
