442 



ti*. Back mottled, being yellow with black 



bases to the feathers; no black on the 



forehead. 



?«'. "With no chestnut shade round the 



black on the fore neck ; back 



strongly mottled with yellow and 



black; the black not continued 



above the eye spihnotus S , ?■ 468. 



v^. A chestnut shade round the black 

 of the fore neck ; the black 

 continued above the eye ; back 

 feebly mottled with black and 



yellow spehii J , p. 469. 



e". Head blackish, with a broad yellow [p. 470. 



eyebrow superciliosus <S , 



1. Hyphantornis galbula. 



Ploceus galbula, mi2yp. Neue Wirb. p. 92, pi. 32. fig. 2 (1835-40) ; 



id. Syst. Uebers. p. 76 (1845) ; Heuijl. Syst. Uebers. p. 37 (1856) ; 



Horsf. 8) Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. ii. p. 520 (1856) ; Eekhenb. 



Sinqv. p. 81, Taf. xxxix. fig. 297 (1861); lieichm. Zool. Jahrb. i. 



p. 119 (1886) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 26. 

 Ploceus aureus, Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 108 (1845). 

 Hyphantornis galbula, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; Cab. Mus. 



'llein. Th. i. p. 181 (1850) ; Brehm, Reis. Ilabeseh, p. 217 (1863) ; 



Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 40, no. 6560 (1870) ; Hevyl. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 557, tab. xviii. fig. d (1870), iv. p. cxxx (1871) ; 



(1873); Salvad. Ami. Mm. Genov. (2) i. p. 191 (1884), vi. 

 p. 291 (1880) ; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, p. 18. 

 Textor galbula, B}). Consp. i. p. 441 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above oliTc-yellow slightly mottled 

 with dusky centres to the feathers, which are much more distinct 

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

 yellow ; lesser wing-coverts dusky brown, fringed with olive-yellow; 

 median and greater coverts, bastard-wing, primar\--coverts, and 

 quills dusky brown edged with yellow, brighter on the coverts and 

 inner secondaries, the outer greater coverts whitish at the ends ; 

 tail-feathers dull olive-brown, yellow on the outer webs and having 

 also a pale yellow margin along the inner web ; crown of head 

 golden yellow, as also the sides of the face, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of body ; lores and chin black ; base of forehead, feathers 

 round eye, fore part of ear-coverts and fore part of cheeks, as well 

 as the upper throat, chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 whitish edged with yellow ; quills below ashy, pale yellow along the 

 inner edge : " bill black ; feet reddish ; iris rufous chestnut " {Von 

 Heuglin). Total length 5 inches, culmen Q-G, wing 2-S, tail 1-75, 

 tarsus U'8. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Brown with a yellow 

 wash, the back with central blackish streaks, the lower back, 



