430 



Adult female. Similar to the foinalc of S. ocularla, but distin- 

 guished by its yellow throat, which eulircly lacks the oraugo colour 

 of the latter bird. Total length G-5 inches, culmeu Owu, wing 3-1, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus U-85, 



Hah. West Africa, from Seuogambia to Gaboon. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



b,c. c^ 5 ad. sk. 

 0, c. d 2 a*!- sk. 

 /. d ad. sk. 

 //. 2 ad. sk. 

 '/(. Juv.- sk. 

 /. (S ad. sk. 



Senegambia. Governor Rendall 



[C.]. 



Senegambia*. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



Jli-verGamh'vA{Ca2)t. Moloney). Shelley Coll. 



River Gambia. 



Tiiver Gambia. 



Ashantee. 



Fantee (J/. T. Ussher). 



k. J ; I, m. 5 ad. Connor's Hill, Fantee, March 



(&'. E. S.). 

 Chama, Gold Coast, Sept. 28 



{Sintenis). 

 Beulah Road, Nov. 25 



(H. F. Blisseti). 

 Abouri, Aguapini, Feb. 24 



{G.E.S.). 

 River Volta {II. T. Ussher). 



sk. 

 II. S ad. sk. 



(>. 2 ad. sk. 



p. S ad. sk. 



q. S ; r, s. 2 ad. 



sk. 

 t, u. 2 ad. sk. 



V, 10. s ; X, y, 2- 



2 ad. sk. 

 a . 2 ad. sk. 



//, e. S ; d', e'. 



2 ad. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. sk. 



Abeokuta. 



Shonga, R. Niger, Nov., Dec. 



( W. A. F.). 

 Cameroons Mountains (A. 



Crosslei/). 

 Fernando Po. 



Kibiro, Equatorial Africa, 

 Oct. 8. 



Purchased. 

 Forbes Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll, 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Forbes Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



L. Fraser [C.]. 



Emin Pasha [P.]. 



6. Sitagra capensis. 



Le Carouge du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 128 (17G0) ; 



Bauhent. PL Enl. iii. pi. 607. lig. 2. 

 Oriolus capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1G3 (17GG) ; Bodd. Tail. PL 



Enl. p. 37 (1783) ; Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 392 (1788). 

 Le Carouge olive de la Louisiane, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 251 



(1775). 

 Olive Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. ii. p. 444 (1782). 

 Ploceus aurifrons, Temm. H. Col. iii. pis. 175, 17G (1823). 

 Ploceus abyssinicus (nee Gin.), Less. Traite, p. 434 (1831). 

 Ploceus icterocephalus, Swains. Classif. B. i. p. 189 (1837). 

 Ploceus capensis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Birds, pi. Ixvi. fig. 2 (1841) ; 



Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. IIG (188G, pt.) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, 



p. 24 (pt.). 

 Ilvphantornis aurifrons. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; Bp. Coiisp. 



\. p. 440 (1850) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 22 (1859) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p.' 179 (1867). 



* These are marked " H. ocularius" by Mr. G. K. Gray, but they are evi- 

 dently the West-African specimens mentioned by Smith in his description of 

 the last-named species. Tlie type of S. ocidaria is also in the Museum. 



