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greyish-purplish patches (Sofie, 16. vi. 02). White with rnfons-brown and deeper- 

 lying greyish spots (Harar, 9. vi. 02). Pale bluish green with dark brown and 

 underlying paler, or with uniform dull pale brown patches. Measurements : 

 20-5 x 151, 20-8 x 15, 21 x 14-8, 21 x 15, 211 x 14-7, 2M x 159, 21-9 x 155, 

 21*8 x 157, 22 x 156, 23 x 15-6 mm. 



30. Ploceus stuhlmanni (Reichw.). 

 Symplectea eluUmanni Reichenow, Orn. Monatsber. 1893. p. 29 (Wallia, Bukoba). 



Dr. Ansorge collected this species at Kaweli in Uganda, in Torn, at Galabi 

 in Uganda, and at Masindi in Unyoro ; and besides these we have two females 

 taken by Oscar Neumann at Habela in Sidamo and at Abera in Djamdjam. 



In this species the males and females are alike in colour, but differ in size, 

 the female being about 6 or 7 mm. shorter in the wing. The idea that " the 

 present species can be looked upon as the western representative of P. reichenowi " 

 is entirely unfounded. What Reichenow described as the female is apparently an 

 immature bird, but not the adult female in full plumage (Vogel Afrikas ii. p. 40). 

 Reichenow's uhehensis is apparently not a " var." but a subspecies. 



31. Ploceus reichenowi (Fischer). 



Sycobrotus Reichenowi Fischer, Journ.f. Orn. 1884. p. 180 ("Gross-Aruscha, Naiwascha-See"). 



S ? , Nairobe, Brit. E. Africa, 30. i. 1899. (Nos. 56, 57.) W. J. Ausorge. 



S, First Swamp (Kikuyu), 6. ii. 1899. (No. 100.) W. J. Ansorge. 



t?, Second Kedoug, 8. ii. 1899. (No. 110.) W. J. Ansorge. 



19 <-? ad., ? ad. and juv., Escarpment, Kikuyu Mountains, 7500 to 8o00 ft., 

 September 1900 to March 1901. W. Doherty coll. " Iris creamy white ; feet dull 

 purplish white or pale dirty brownish ; bill black." AV. Doherty. 



The males and females as well as the young birds have been described. From 

 our series, however, it seems to me as if there also is a plumage of the adult 

 male like that of the adult female, i.e. with black top of head and upper back. 

 Perhaps this is the regular plumage of the adult male during the non-breeding 

 season. Young birds have the crown greenish olive. 



32. Ploceus baglafecht Vieill. 



Cf. Reichenow, VSg. Afr. iii. p. 40. 



We have the 13 ue series collected by Oscar Neumann in Shoa, Kaffa, etc., 

 and three collected by Ragazzi. Neumann is perfectly right in describing the 

 ? ad. (in breeding plumage !) like the male, only with the forehead not yellowish 

 olive-green like the back, and without the black auricular patch. I may add that 

 it is a little smaller. The adult male in breeding plumage has the rump olive- 

 yellowish-green like the back, not greyish-brownish as described by Reichenow 

 and Shelley, and the adult female has the entire under-surface yellow, not 

 " Bauch weiss." 



" Otyphantes lovati," Shelley, B. Afr. iv. p. 457, is not a species, but merely 

 the adult male in breeding plumage. 



" Si/mpli'ctcn eremobim" 1 Hartl, from Unyoro (Zool. Jahrb. 18*7. p. 320), 

 is probably /'. stuhlman/ii, as suggested by Neumann, but never baglafecht. 

 Unfortunately the type is lost. (Cf. <'">. B. xiii. p. 419.) 



