3, Sitagra subpersonata. 



Hyphantornis subpersonatus, Cub. J. f. O. 1870, p. 92 ; Sharpe c^- 



Jiouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 47 (1870). 

 Hyphantornis ocularius (iiec Smith), Reichcn. J. f. O. 1877, p. 27 ; 



? Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 328 (1881). 

 Hyphantorni.s bracbypterus [nee Sic), Sharpe ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. 



Zool. France, i. p. 309 (1870). 

 Ploceus subpersonatus, Reichenb. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 1.52, pi. 5. fig. 4 



(1880) ; Shelleij, Ibis, 1887, p. 32. 



Adult male. Similar to S. luteola, but very much larger and with 

 a longer bill, the general colour above being dull olive-green, olive- 

 yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; forehead and vertex 

 black ; the hinder crown, occiput, and nape deep orange like the hind 

 neck, sides of neck, and under surface of body ; the throat black, 

 extending on to the fore neck ; bill black. Total length 5'G inches, 

 culmen U-75, wing 2-6, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and scarcely to be distin- 

 guished from the hen of S. ocadaria. Olive-yellow above, brighter 

 yellow below, with a wash of orange on the throat and fore neck, 

 cheeks and car-coverts ; a black streak through the eye ; forehead 

 and eyebrow orange-yellow ; rest of the crown yellow, becoming 

 olive-yellow like the back on the occiput and nape. Total length 

 5-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-65, tail 2, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Lower Congo. 



«. c? ; 6, e. 2 ad. sk. Landana, R. Congo {L. Petit). Shelley Coll. 



d. o ad. sk. Landana, L, Petit [C.]. 



4. Sitagra ocularia. 



Ploceus ocularius, Smith, Proc. S. Afr. Inst. 1828 ; id. III. Zool. S. 



Afr. pi. 30. fig. 2 (1839) ; 6urne.y,Ibis, 1802, p. 37; Shelley, Ibis, 



1887, p. 23 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 34. 

 I'loceus gutturahs, Vig. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 92. 

 Hyphantornis gutturalis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 3.51 (1849). 

 Hvpbantornis ocularius. Gray, Gen.B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; Bp. Consjx 



"i. p. 440 (1850); PeicJienb. Sinr/v. p. 80, Taf. xhii. fig. 321 (1861); 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 182 (1807) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1807, p. 431 ; 



Lai/ard, Ibis, 1809, p. 74; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6597 



(1870); Sharije, Cat. Afr. B. p. 59 (1871); id. P. Z. S. 1873, 



p. 715; Ayres, Ibis, 1870, p. 431; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 328 



