246 PLOCEID^. 



hvo^n" {T. Ay res). Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 

 3-9, tail 2-3, tarsns 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller : " bill 

 light dusky brown, paler ou the lower mandible" (T. Ayres). Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-85, tail 2-5, tarsus 0*9. 



Hah. South Africa from the Orange Eiver to Damara-Land and 

 Benguela on the west, and to Matabele-Land on the east. 



a. Ad.; h. Juv. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa {Sir A. Smith). Purchased. 

 d, e. cJ ad. sk. Giiqua-Land, May {T. C. Shelley Coll. 



Atmore). 



f. cf ad. sk. Transvaal {T. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 

 jy, ^. c? ad. sk. Matabele-Land, Sept. (T. ^. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 



i, iS ad. sk. Palatsie Eiver, near Shoshong, W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Aug. 13, 1874 (F. Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



k. I, Ad. sk. Matalko, Damara-Land, July Sharpe CoU. 



14, 1866 (C. J. Andersson). 



m. 2 ^^- sk. Rio Chimba, Mossamedes {J. Sharpe Coll. 



Anckieta). 



n. c? ad. sk. Maconjo, Aug. (J. AncJdeta). Shelley Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Capaugombe {J. Anchieta). Shelley Coll. 



2. Ploceipasser melanorhynchus. 



Ploceus superciliosus, Bes Murs in Lefehwe's Voy. Abyss, p. 110, 



pi. ix. fig. 2 (1845-50). 

 Plocepasser melanorhynchus, RUpp. Syst. Uebers. p. 78 (1845) ; 



Bp. Consix i. p. 444 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 6656 



(1870) ; Antin. ^ Salimd. Viayg. Boyos, p. 119 (1873) ; Pelz. Verh. 



z.-h. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 150 (1881) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. 



(2) i. p. 177 (1884), vi. p. 295 (1888) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 6. 

 Philagrus melanorhynchus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 179, note 



(1850); Ileuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 538, pi. 21 (1870), iv. p. cxxviii 



(1871) ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 232 ; Bartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. 



Bremen, \n. '^. 101 (1881); Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 328 



(1884) ; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 1.34. 

 Plocepasser mahali (nee S7nifh), Heiigl. Syst. Uebers. p. 43 (1850) ; 



Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 67 (1864) ; Heuyl. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 309 ; 



id. Orn. W.O.-Afr.i.-p. 537 (1870) ; Salvad. AttiR. Accad. Torino, 



V. p. 740 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts white ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 coverts white, forming a broad band ; greater coverts dark brown, 

 broadly tipped with white ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills dark brown, the primaries fringed with whity brown, the 

 secondaries more broadly edged, the innermost also lighter brown ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, fringed with whity brown, and tipped 

 with a bar of white ; crown of head brownish black, as far as the 

 occiput ; hind neck like the back ; lores black, as well as the 

 feathers below the eye ; a broad eyebrow of white extending above 



