420 TLOCEIDj;. 



eyebrow, feathers round the eye, sides of face, and ear-coverts black ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body golden yeUow, with a slight 

 tinge of olive-green on the sides of the breast, sides of body, and 

 flanks ; under tail-coverts rather paler yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 ashy whitish, yellow along the edge of the wing : quills below 

 dusky, ashy yellow along the inner edge : " bill black ; feet 

 reddish ; iris pale yellow " ( Von Heuc/Un). Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0"65, wing 3"05, tail 1"6, tarsus 0'8o. 



Winter plumage. Upper surface grey, often washed with fawn- 

 colour, the middle of the feathers darker or smoky blackish ; lores 

 and ear-coverts smoky grey ; under surface clear yellowish white, 

 the fore neck, breast, and flanks washed with reddish grey ; lower 

 back and upper tail-coverts olive-greenish ; wing-coverts and inner- 

 most secondaries edged with clear dusky yellow : " bill clear horn- 

 colour, with horny brown culmen ; iris greyish white " ( Von 

 Heuglhi). 



Adult female. More ashy brown than the male, and rather 

 broadly streaked with blackish on the upper surface : rump creamy 

 white ; wings and tail as in the adults, but less strongly tinged with 

 yeUow ; head ashy brown like the back, with only a faint <inge of 

 yellow on the forehead ; lores blackish ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts pale ashy brown, lighter on the cheeks, throat, and chest ; 

 remainder of under surface of body white. Total length 5*8 inches, 

 culmen 0-6o, wing 3, tail 2, tarsus 0"85. 



Hah. N.E. Africa from Bogos-Land to Shoa, extending apparently 

 into Equatorial Africa. 



a, 6. cT 2 ad. at Senafe, Tigru, March, Mav. W. T. Blauford, Esq. 



juv.;c. 2ad.sk. " [C.]. 



d. d ad. sk. Lake Ashangi, May. W. T. Blanford, E^q. 



[C.]. 



e. c? ad. sk. Ankoher, Shoa, July (6Vr Jf. India Museum. 



C. Harris). 

 f,ff. c( ad. sk. Shoa, Jau., May (A.Anti- Shelley Coll. 



nori). 



7. Heterliyphantes emini. 



Sycobrotus emini, Hart/. Orn. Centralhl. ISS:?, p. 02; id. J. f. 0. 



1882, pi. i. fig. 1. 

 Hvphantornis emini, Hartl. J. f. O. 1882, p. .322 ; id. Abhandl. 7iat. 



^Ver. Sremen, viii. p. 199 (1882). 

 Symplectes emini, Reichen. J.f. O. 1885, p. 373. 

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



Adult male. Similar to H. harilafccld., but differing in its black 

 back, the feathers of the nape, hind neck, and sides of neck edged 

 with ashy, those of the back with yellow : lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts ashy, the latter shghtly washed with yellow ; 

 scapulars like the back, with ashy edges ; wing-coverts and quills 

 black edged M'ith yellow, paler on the median and greater coverts, 

 the inner secondaries edged with ashy ; tail-feathers dull olive- 



