. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 254 PLOCEIDJi!. the bill was blue-black, the feet yellowish browu, and the eyelid white. The Cameroons specimen, which ho separates as P. coccineus, had the bill steel-blue, the feet yellowish grey-brown, the iris clear reddish browu, and the eyelid white. These soft parts will bo seen to differ somewhat from those given by Mr. Biittikofer. Hab. West Africa from Senegambia to the Congo, extending along the Congo region to Equatorial Africa. a. [Si ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swauzj, Esq. [P.]. /!i. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Fantee. Saarpe Coll. c, rf. [ $ ] ad. sk. F
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 254 PLOCEIDJi!. the bill was blue-black, the feet yellowish browu, and the eyelid white. The Cameroons specimen, which ho separates as P. coccineus, had the bill steel-blue, the feet yellowish grey-brown, the iris clear reddish browu, and the eyelid white. These soft parts will bo seen to differ somewhat from those given by Mr. Biittikofer. Hab. West Africa from Senegambia to the Congo, extending along the Congo region to Equatorial Africa. a. [Si ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swauzj, Esq. [P.]. /!i. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Fantee. Saarpe Coll. c, rf. [ $ ] ad. sk. Fantee {Kirby). Shelley Coll. e. S ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. f.\9.^ ad. sk. Gaboon. Sharps Coll. '(). Juv. sk. Gaboon. M. DuChaillu [C.]. h. ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaillu). Tweeddale Coll. i. 2 imm. sk. Leopoldville, Upper Congo, F. Bohndorff [C.]. Dec. k. (5 ad. sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Afiica, Eniin Pasha [P.]. July 4, 1885. 13. CRYPTOSPIZA. Type. Cryptospiza, Saload. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 180 (1884) C. reichenowi. Range. Confined to Africa. 1. Cryptospiza reichenowi. Pytelia reicherowii, Hartl. Ibis, 1874, p. 166 ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 41, pi. 2. %. 1. __ Cryptospiza reicheuowii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cicic. Genov. (2) i. p. 180 (1884) ; Shelleij, Ibis, 1886, p. 317. Adult. Head, neck, and under surface of body yellowish olive-brown ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and sides of body brownish carmine-red ; coverts and inner secondaries edged with brownish red: iris dark; feet aud bill black. Total length 12 inches, culmeu I'l, wing 5'3, tail 4, tarsus 2. (Hartlcmb.) Hab. Bonjongo in the Cameroon Mountains, and extending across to Shoa. 14. aUELEA. Type. Quelea, Reichenb. tSi/st. Nat. Taf. fig. 1 (1850) .... ? Q. quelea. Hyphautica, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 180 (1S50) ? Q. Bill of Qticka quelea, to show deflected angle in tomium. Range. Confined to Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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