410 PLOCEID^. 



44. ICTEROPSIS. Type. 



Icterop.^is, Pelz. Vvrh. z.-b. Gcs. Wien, xxxi. p. 149 



(1881) I. pelzelni. 



Head of Icicropsis pelzelni, to show nostril. 

 Ranye. Equatorial Africa, extending to the Victoria Nyanza, 



1. Icteropsis pelzelni. 



Icteropsis crocata (wee Hart I.), Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, x.xxi. 



p. 149 (1881). 

 Sitagra pelzelui, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 343, Taf. xiv. figs. D, 10 



(1887). 

 Ploceus pelzelni, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 69; SJwllei/, P. Z. S. 1888, 



p. 35. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow ; the hind neck 

 yellow, extending on to the occiput, and forming a broad collar, 

 separating the back from the black of the head ; scapulars like the 

 back, but slightly streaked with dusky ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish, with pale yellow- 

 ish-white margins and tips ; bastard-wing, pi'imary-coverts, and 

 quills dusky blackish, edged with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers pale 

 olive, with yellow margins : crown of head black to the centre, as 

 weU as the lores, eyebrow, feathers round eye, sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, and throat ; sides of neck, fore neck, and remainder 

 of under surface of body bright yellow, including tbe under tail- 

 coverts and under wing-coverts ; quills below dusky, yellowish 

 along the inner edge : " bill black ; feet lead-colour ; iris dusky 

 \>To\\u" (Emin Pasha). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 

 2-4, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Like the male, but wanting the black on the head, 

 which is yellow on the forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, and entire 

 under surface ; the hinder crown and nape olive like the back : 

 "bill and feet as in the male; iris dusky umher" (Emin Pasha). 

 Total length 4"5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-2, tail 1'5, tarsus 0-6. 



Young male. Like the old female, but having the head olive like 

 the back, leaving a bright yellow eyebrow : " bill horn-colour, the 

 mandible paler ; feet lead-colour ; iris dusky umber" {Emin Pasha). 



Excepting that it has a prominent yellow collar on the hind neck, 

 this species is almost an exact reproduction of Sitagra lutcola. The 



