4 IP) PI,OCEID.K. 



A'ltilt mah'. General colour above dark chocolate -brown, with a 

 little olive-yellow on the scapulars ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts uniforna like the back ; remainder 

 of the" coverts, quills, and tail dark brown, edged with olive-yellow ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, and sides of neck deep yellow, inclining 

 to orange on the forehead and vertex as well as the ear-coverts ; lores 

 and region of the eye, as well as the base of the cheeks and throat, 

 black : remainder of cheeks and fore neck orange-yellow ; the breast 

 and abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts white, edged with yellow ; quills light ashy brown 

 below, pale ashy along the inner web : " bill black ; feet dusky 

 red : iris straw-colour''' (Emin Pasha). Total length 5-7 inches, 

 culmen O'T, wing 2-9, tail 2, tarsus O'Tii. 



Adult female. Different from the male as regards the head, which 

 is black with a distinct streak of yellow running from the base of 

 the nostrils above the eye ; lores and a broad streak through the 

 eye black ; sides of face 'and under surface of body bright yellow, 

 orange on the ear-coverts and throat. Total length 5-4 inches, 

 culmen O'To, wing 2-85, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-8. 



One immature male is moulting from the black-headed stage, and 

 has the crown spangled with new yellow feathers. 



Young (? female). Dull olive above, more or less dusky ; a little 

 brighter yellow over the eyebrow ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and 

 under surface of body brighter yellow. 



Hah. West Africa', from the Cameroons to Gaboon and the Congo, 

 reaching to the Moubuttu country in Equatorial Africa. 



a. c^ ad. St. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



b c. 9 ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



d. S ad. sk. Gaboon (A. Marche). M. A. Bouvier. 



e,f. d ad.; ff. Juv. Gaboon. P- B. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



sk. 

 h-l. d ad. et imm. ; Landana, Congo (i. Shelley Coll. 



m. 2 i™™- ^^- Petit), 



n, o. (S 2 ad. sk. R. Congo {Lucan Sf Shelley Coll. 



Petit). 

 p. d ad. sk. Bellima, Equatorial Emin Pasha [P.]. 



Africa, .luue '2?>. 



2. Heterhyphantes melanoxanthus. 



Sycobrotus nigricollis (;»ec V.), Fimch ^- Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 405 

 (1870) ; Sharps, Cat. Afr. B. p. CO (1871) ; Shelley, P. A. S. 1881, 

 T) 5^5 



Hyphanturgus melanoxanthus. Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 20q, 23-' ; 

 'Fische,;J.f.O. 1878,^.263. 



Hvphanturgiis nigricollis («ec V.), Cab.J.f. O. 18, 8, p. 232; Fischer 

 'i-Reichen. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 263; iid. J.f. O. 1879, p. 350 ; Fischer, 

 J. f. O. 1879, p. 280 ; id. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 332 (1884) ; td. 

 J.'f. O. 1885, p. 133. 



Sycobrotus melanoxanthus, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 58o. 



Ploceus melanoxanthus, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 22, 1888, p. 302. 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a slight gloss ; 



