316 
Captain G. E. Shelley on the 
b. Bill with the entire cntting-edges of both man¬ 
dibles broadly edged with orange-red; sides 
of the head and upper tail-coverts bright red, 
of the same shade as the throat; no portion of 
the crown nor centre of the forehead washed 
with red in either sex. 
b 1 . Abdomen uniform black. 25. S. guttata, $ . 
c 1 . Abdomen black, spotted or barred with white S. guttata , $ . 
24. Spermospiza hcematina. 
Loxia hcematina , Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 102, pi. 67, 
Africa. 
Coccothraustes hcematina , Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 534. 
Spermophaga cyanorhyncha , Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837, 
p. 164. 
Spermospiza hcematina , Gray, List Gen. B. 1840, p. 43 
(part.). 
Spermospiza guttata , Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 384, ? , Eantee. 
Hab. W. Afr., Abeokuta to Senegambia. 
a. March, Cape-Coast Castle (^Shelley ). b. March, Wassaw 
{Shelley Mus.). 
25. Spermospiza guttata. 
Loxia guttata , Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 103, pi. 68, £ , 
Congo. 
Coccothraustes guttata, Vieill. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 533. 
Fringilla pustulata,Y oigt (nec Ill.), Cuv. Thierr. ii. 1831, 
p. 581. 
Spermospiza guttata , J. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1852, 
p. 312. 
Spermospiza hcematina , Oust. Nouv. Arch, du Mns. 1879, 
p. 113, Ogowe. 
Hab. W. Afr., Congo to the Gaboon. 
8. Cryptospiza. 
1884. Cryptospiza , Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Type. 
Gen. 1884, p. 180. C. reichenowi. 
So far as I can judge from a hasty examination of the 
type of Cryptospiza reichenowi , which is mounted in the 
Berlin Museum, I think it is rightly placed in a genus by 
