418 



4. Heterhyphantes sancti thomSB. 



Sycobius sancti tliom;\3, Harfl. Rev. Zoul. 1848, p. 109 ; id. AbhaniU. 



luit. Ver. Hamh. pi. 9 (18-48). 

 Anaplectes saucti tbouiaj, Reichenh. Sinijv. p. 87, Taf. xliv. fig. 324 



(1861). 

 Ploceus nigricollis, pt., Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 22. 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown washed with 

 olive-yellow, the rump ochreous ; upper tail-coverts brown, washed 

 with ochreous ; wing-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 olive-yellow, the median and greater coverts as well as the inner 

 secondaries with a large white spot at the end of the outer web ; 

 tail-feathers brown, with olive-yellow margins ; crown of head, 

 nape, and hind neck black ; a broad eyebrow from the base of the 

 forehead to the side of the nape, entire sides of face and sides of 

 neck, throat, and breast orange-yellow ; abdomen isabelline ; sides 

 of body, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts isabelline brown, the 

 former with a slight wash of olive ; under wiug-coverts and asil- 

 laries pale ashy, edged with yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy along 

 the inner web. Total length 5*G inches, culmen O'Vo, wing 3"1, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 0-95. 



Ilab. Island of S. Thomas, West Africa. 



a. cS ad. sk. S. Thomas, Sept. 18 {F. Neiuton). Lisbon Museum. 



5. Heterhyphantes reichenowi. 



Sycobrotus reichenowi, Fischer, J. f. O. 1884, p. 180 ; Shelley, 



P. Z. S. 1885, p. 229. 

 Ilypbanturgus reichenowi, Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 331 



(1884) ; id. J.f. O. LSS5, p. 132. 

 Symplectes reichenowi, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1885, p. 373. 

 Ploceus reichenowi, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 21. 



Adult male. Similar to H. hacjlafecht and, like that species, 

 entirely golden yellow below ; the crown also golden yellow, but the 

 back and scapulars black instead of olive-yellow : " bill black ; feet 

 clear reddish brown; iris clear yellow" {G. A. Fischer). Total 

 length 5"4 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-15, tail 2, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having no yellow on the 

 crown, which is black like the back and sides of the face. Total 

 length 5"-4 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 3, tail 2, tarsus 0'9. 



Hab. East Africa : Masai-Land and the Kilimanjaro district. 



a, b. (S 2 ^^- sk. Kilimanjaro, 5000 feet. II. II. Johnston, Esq. 



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 r, d. S ?fid. ; e, KihmaujarOjoOOO-OOOOfeet Shelley Coll. 

 /. cJinnn- sk. (//. H. Johnstuti). 



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