311 
Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 
Keg to the Species. 
a. Upper parts olive-yellow. Sides of head white. 
In the male the black of the chin and upper 
throat extends behind the ear-coverts. 16. M. sharpii. 
b. With no olive nor yellow on the upper parts. 
b 1 . Bill not pink. Cheeks and ear-coverts not 
uniform white. 
b 2 . Lower mandible red, upper one blackish. 
Upper throat black. Bump and upper 
tail-coverts brown . 17. M. nana. 
c 2 . Both mandibles of the same colour. No 
black on throat. Head more or less 
spotted. 
c 3 . Underparts nearly white. Bump and 
upper tail-coverts black. Inner wing- 
feathers barred. 18. M. cantans. 
d 3 . Head and neck grey. Breast rufous-buff. 
Bump and upper tail-coverts white .... 19. M. caniceps. 
c l . Bill pink. Mantle and chest grey. Cheeks 
and ear-coverts white.. 20. M. orizivora. 
16. Munia sharpii. 
Amadina sharpii, Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 130, pi. 10, 
Abeokuta (type exam.). 
Hab. W. Afr., Abeokuta. 
17. Munia nana. 
Pyrrhula nana, Pucher. Mag. Zool. 1845, pi. 58, Mada¬ 
gascar. 
Spermestes nana, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 454; Milne-Edw. 
and Grandid. Hist. Madag. Ois., Atlas, ii. pi. 183. figs. 1, 2. 
Lepidopygia nana, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 46, pi. 17. 
fig. 152. 
Hab. Madagascar. 
18. Munia cantans. 
Loxia cantans, Gm. S. N. i. 1788, p. 859. 
Coccothraustes cantans, Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 529. 
Fringilla cantans, Licht. Yerz. Doubl. 1823, p. 27. 
Estrelda cantans, Rupp. Syst. Uebers. 1845, p. 77. 
Amadina cantans, Gray & Mitchell, Gen. B. ii. 1849, 
p. 370. 
