) 



48. SITAGRA. 431 



Ilypliaiitomis capensis, Gnit/, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1819) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 410 (1850); Cab. Mus. Heiii. Th. i. p. 182 (1850); Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 179 (18G7). 

 Oi'ioliniis capensis, Eeichenb. Sinf/i>. p. 84, pi. 42. figs. 315, 316 (1861). 

 Oi'iolinus aurifrous, Reichenb. t.'e. p. 85, pi. 43. tigs. 317, 318 (1861). 

 Hypliautornis olivaceus. Gray, Jland-l. B. ii. p. 41, no. 6575 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above bright olive-yellow, scarcely 

 mottled with dusky bases to the feathers, which are a little more 

 distinct on the scapulars ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 a little brighter than the back and more uniform ; wing-coverts and 

 quills dusky blackish, edged with olive-yellow, bright yellow on the 

 edges of the secondaries and median and greater coverts ; tail- 

 feathers brown washed with olive, edged with yellow ; crown of 

 head bright orange-yellow, inclining gradually on the occiput and 

 nape to olive-yellow ; lores and feathers round eye dusky olive ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body brilliant 

 yellow ; chin, the sides of the face, throat, and fore neck rather 

 inclining to orange ; under wing-coverts and asillaries ashy brown, 

 edged with yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill livid bi'own ; feet and claws flesh-colour ; iris light red " 

 {Sir A. Smith). Total length G"7 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 3"55, 

 tail 2-3, tarsus 0'9.5. 



Adult female. Much duller in colour than the male, especially 

 below ; the yellow on the forehead aud sides of face also absent. 

 (Jeneral colour above olive, slightly washed with yellow, the feathers 

 mottled with dusky centres, the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts more decidedly washed with yellow ; wings and tail as in 

 the male ; head like the back ; lores ashy ; sides of face ashy olive ; 

 cheeks and remainder of under surface of body olive-yellow, washed 

 here and there with brighter yellow ; abdomen whitish, slightly 

 washed with yellow ; under tail-coverts white with yellow edges. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3'65, tail 2%3, tarsus 1*05. 



One male in the collection, obtained by Mr. Butler near Cape 

 Town, has a most curious dusky throat and ear-coverts, inclining 

 to blackish. 



Hah. Western Cape Colony. 



a-d. (S ad. et juv. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



sk. 



e,f. cJad. et juv.; Cape Colony {E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



(J, h, i. 5 ad. sk. 



k,'l. 6 2 ad. sk. Cape Colony {E. L. Layard). Forbes Coll. 



m. c? ad. sk. Cape Colony. Hardwicke Coll. 



w, 0. (5' 5 ad.sk. Caledon,CapeColony(SM<;er). Shelley Coll. 



p. S ad.sk. C?i-^QC.o\oTiy{C.J.Andersson). Sharpe Coll. 



q,r. (S imm.sk. Knysua, Dec. & Jan. (C. J. ^.). Sharpe Coll. 



Subspecies a. Sitagra caffra. 



Icterus cati'er, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 19 (1823). 



Icterus olivaceus, Halin, Voy. aus Asien etc. Lief. vi. pi. 4 (1822). 



? Ploceus aureus, Des Murs in Lefebore's Voy. Abyss, p. 180 (1845). 



