51. IIYPnAXTOENIS. 



437 



and f(irc neck dull yellow ; reraninder of under surface pale ashy, 

 washed with olive ; under tail-coverts pale tawny rufous ; hill white 

 with a dusky tip. 



Even after the hill is black, and the underparts rcsemhle those of 

 the adult, the young bird has the head olive-green like the back, 

 with a yellow eyebrow. Every observer has hitherto determined 

 the bird with the yellow forehead to be the old female, but no at- 

 tempt has yet been made to tind out what the seasonal plumage is 

 like, and yet it ought to be well marked in such a strikingly-coloured 

 bird. My own impression is that some of the specimens asserted to 

 be young birds are really the old ones in seasonal plumage. 



Hah. E. and N.W. Madagascar. 



(I. .Juv. sk. 

 /'. <S innu. sk. 



c. (S ad. sk. 



f/,'',/[c??] ad.sk. 

 r/. [$]ad. sk. 

 A, /. [ d 2 ] ad. sk. 

 k. $ jiiv. sk. 



/. Ji 



Madagascar. 



N.E. Madagascar {PoUen 

 i^- Van Dam). 



Nossi Vola, N. Mada- 

 gascar. 



Nossi Vola {A. Crosttlei/). 



Nossi Vola (A. C). 



Saralalau (A. C). 



Auknfana Forest, Bet- 

 sileo, March 18 (W. 

 Deans Coican). 



Betsileo. 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Mr. A. Orosslpy [C.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Salviu-Codman Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 

 ShelleV Coll. 



Rev. A. Shaw [C.]. 



51. HYPHANTORNIS * ^^^^ 



Tlvphaiitoruis, Graji, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1840) II. cucullatus. 



XaiUhophllus, lieiihenh. Sinr/v. p. 84 (1801) II. aureiHavus. 



Oriolinus, Sekhenb. t. c. p. 84 (1861) II. suhaureus. 



Head oi Hy phantom is cucullafus, to show nostrils and niielial bristles. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



* Hypiiantornis anomalus. 

 Ploceus anomalus, I?vicJiciib. J.f. 0. 1887, pp. 214, 307. 

 Described from a male, not fully pUimaged, but said to differ in the very 

 short first primary and short tail from all other Weaver-birds. 

 Hub. Stanley Falls, Upper Congo. 



