352 
Captain G. E. Shelley on the 
«' 4 . Smaller: wing 2*2 inches ; sides of the 
body between the crop-patch and 
thigh yellow, or mottled with yel¬ 
low .. 102. P. sticta . 
h' A . With a yellow collar across the crop .... 103. P. afra. 
91. Pyromelana flammiceps. 
Euplectes flammiceps, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837, p. 186, 
pi. 13, Senegal. 
Oryx petiti, Des Murs, in Lefebyre's Voy. Abyss. 1845- 
50, p. 112. 
Euplectes craspedopterus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 1856, p. 30, 
no. 383. 
Euplectes ftaviceps (laps, cal.), Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, 
p. 106. 
Euplectes pyrrhozana, Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 247. 
Pyromelana flammiceps, F. & H. Vog. Ostafr. 1870, 
p. 414. 
Hah. N.E., E., S.?, and W. Afr., between about 15° N. 
lat. and 10° S. lat. From Abyssinia to Lindi on the east 
coast, and from the Quanza to Senegal on the west. ? Ben- 
guela (j Brit. Mus.). 
92. Pyromelana gierowi. 
Euplectesgierowii, Cab. Orn. Centralbl. 1880, p. 6, Quanza; 
id. J. f. O. 1880, p. 106, pi. 3. fig. 2. 
Hah. W. Afr., Quanza in Angola. 
93. Pyromelana friederichsoni. 
Euplectes friederichsoni , Fisch. & Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, 
p. 54, Ngaruman. 
Hab. E. Afr., Ngaruman. 
94. Pyromelana orix. 
Grenadier , Edw. Nat. Hist. B. 1743, pi. 178 (fair). 
Emberiza orix , Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 309, ex Edw. 
Loxia orix, Baud. Traite Orn. ii. 1800, p. 377, Cape. 
Loxie orix, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 100, pi. 66 (good). 
Coccothraustes orix, Yieili. N. D. xiii. 1817, p. 536. 
Oryx oryx, Less. Traite Orn. 1831, p. 438. 
Euplectes oryx, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 1837, p. 187. 
