426 rLOCEiD.'E. 



brighter olive-yellow ; head ashy, washed with yellow, with a 

 l)rig'htcr yellow eyebrow ; under surface of body pale yellow, whiter 

 ou the abdomen ; bill black. Total length 3*9 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2-3, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'6. 



Huh. Senegambia to JSTorth-eastern Africa, and Equatorial Africa. 



a. ^ imm. sk. West Africa. Sir A. Smith. 



b, c. S fid. sli. River Gambia. Dr. IJendall [C.]. 

 d. cJ imm. sk. Senaar (Dr. Kotschi/). Sharpe Coll. 



/'. cj' ad. sk. Kordofan (Pei/ierick). Eyton Coll. 



f. S ad.sk. Wahko, Anseba Valley, J ulv. W. T. Elanford, E.sq. 



LC.]- 



0,J>-6 2ad.sk. Bogos-Laud, July, Aug. {W. 



Jesse), 



t, k. S ? ad. sk. Lado, March, July {Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



I, m, n. (5 ad. sk. Kiri, May. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



o,p. cJ ? ad.; q. Redjaf, June, July {Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 

 Imm. sk. 



c? ad. et Redjaf, May 8. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



imm. sk. 



2. Sitagra monacha.* 



Ploceus personatus {ncc V.), Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 35, pi. 7 

 (fig. mala) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 300, 307 ; f^ihelley, Ibis, 

 1887, p. 31. 



Hyphantornis personata {nee V.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; 

 3p. Cunsp. i. p. 440 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 123 (1857); 

 id. J. f. O. 1801, p. 175 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 42, no. 6578 

 (1870) ; 8harpe, ibis, 1870, p. 348 ; Shelley 8; Buckley, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 289 ; TJssher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, pp. 504, 514, 

 552 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 550. 



Hyphanturgus personatus {nee V.), Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, 

 p. 134. 



Ploceolus personatus {nee V.), Peiehenb. Singv. p. 77, pi. 36. figs. 274, 

 275 (1861). 



Ilyphautornis luteola {nee Licht.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 56. 



Adult male. Similar to S. luteola, but with more black on the 

 crown, the hinder crown and hinder neck brighter and more orange- 

 yellow, the back perfectly uniform, and the wing-coverts and inner 

 secondaries edged with olive-yellow and not with pale j'cUow or 

 white. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-.55, wing 2-3, tail 1-4, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Adult femcde (or young male). Wants the black on the head of 

 the male, and resembles the female of S. luteola, but is altogether 

 brighter yellow below ; the head is dark olive-yellow like back. 

 Total length 4*3 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-25, tail 1-4, tarsus 1-2. 



Congo birds appear to differ in having the black of the throat 

 more produced on to the fore neck. Total length 4*4 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 2-2, tail 1-45, tarsus 0-7. 



Hub. West Africa from the Gold Coast to the Congo. 



* Emended na,ine(oe P. 2>crso7?.ata of Vicillot, wliicli is undoubtedly the same 

 as true S. luteola. 



