48. SITAGRA. 425 



'. "Wings uniform and like the back. 

 A". Forehead orange ; sides of face and 



throat bay and chestnut ocuJaria J , p. 427. 



i" . Forehead orange; sides of face and 



tliroat orange, with a very little shade 



of cliestiiiit suhjier sonata J , p. 427. 



k". Forehead and crown olive-yellow like 



the back ; a broad eyebrow of yellow . hraclujptera J , p. 429. 



1. Sitagra luteola. 



Fringilla luteola, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 23 (1823). 



Ploceus personatus, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. 84 (1825). 



Ploceus melanotis, Swnhis. B. W. Afr. i. p. .307 (1837). 



Ploceus luteolus, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 332 (1849) ; Reichen. Zool. Jalirh. 



i. p. 153 (1886) ; Shelle.y, Ibis, 1887, p. 31 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 85. 

 Hyphantornis personatns, Bp. Consp. i. p. 440 (1850) ; Antin. Cat. 



(kscrr. Ucc. p. m (1864) ; Heiujl. J. f. 0. 1867, p. 390 ; id. Oni. 



N.O.-Afr. iv. p. cxxxii (1871). 

 Sitagra luteola, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 131 (1850) ; Beh. Verh. 



z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 612 (1881). 

 Fringilla (Acanthus) chrysonielas, Hciigl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 (1850). 

 Ploceus niinutus, Voti Miill. Naum. 1851, Heft 4, p. 28. 

 Fringilla muelleri, Bald. Naiim. 1851, Heft 4, p. 28. 

 Hyphantornis luteolus, Haiil. Orn. Westafr. p. 123 (1857); Finsch, 



J. f. O. 1863, p. 170; Hem/l. Orn. N'.O.-Afr. i. p. 565 (1870); 



Gray, Hand-l. B. il. p. 42,'no. 6577 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. i.- Zool. 



Abyss, p. 404 (1870) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. 8. vii. p. 262 (1879) ; Antin. 



^- Salvad. Viayy. Buyos, p. 122 (1873) ; Sharpe, P. Z. 8. 1874, 



p. 306 ; Ilartl'. AbharuU. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 100 (1881), viii. 



p. 200 (1882) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. (2) i. p. 191 (1884), 



vi. p. 290(1888). 

 Ploceolus luteolus, Reichenb. Sinyv. p. 77, pi. 35. fig. 273 (1861). 

 Hyphantornis chrysomelas, Hetiyl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 25. 



Adah male. General colour above olive-yellow, with faint indica- 

 tions of dusky centres to the feathers ; the rump and u})per tail- 

 covcrfcs rather brighter yellow ; scapulars like the back, but more 

 distinctly streaked with blackish centres ; lesser wing-coverts 

 blackish, edged with olive-yellow ; median and greater coverts 

 V.Lickish, edged with yellow or white ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, edged with olive-yellow, lighter and 

 broader on the inner secoudaries ; tail-feathers light olive-brown, 

 edged externally with olive-yellow and internally with pale yellow; 

 crown of head yellow, inclining to olive-yellow on tlie occiput, nape, 

 and hind neck ; a broad band of black across the forehead ; lores, 

 feathers round eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat 

 black, descending on to the fore neck ; sides of neck, sides of fore 

 neck, and remainder of under surface of body bright yellow, including 

 the under wing-coverts ; quills below dusky, yellow along the inner 

 edge: "bill black; feet lead- colour ; iris crimson" (Von Ileuglin). 

 Total length 4-7 inches, eulmen 0'55, wing 2-4, tail 1*7, tarsus O-Oo. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the black of the 

 head and throat, the back being ashy, washed with olive-yellow 

 and streaked with dusky brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 



