51. HTPHANTORNIS. 



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rump, and upper tail-coverts clearer yellow ; head almost uniform 

 olive-yellow ; wings brown, washed with yellow, the median 

 and greater coverts whitish at their ends, the quills brighter yellow 

 on their margins ; tail pale olive-brown, with yellow edges ; a faint 

 yellow eyebrow ; sides of face light isabelline with a yellow tinge, 

 slightly more pronounced on the cheeks ; throat whitish washed 

 with pale yellow ; fore neck, breast, and sides of body isabelline 

 brown, with a slight yellow tinge ; centre of breast and abdomen 

 whitish. Total length 5 inches, culraen 0'6, wing 2'G, tail 1'65, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



Hah. North-eastern Africa from Shoa to Nubia, and also occurring 

 in Southern Arabia. 



a. Pull. sk. 



b. cJ ad. sk. 



c. c? ad. sk. 



d. (S ad. sk. 



e. 2 juv. sk. 



f. (J. S ad. sk. 

 h. $ ad. sk. 



i-m. S inim., 

 2 ad. sk. 



n. c? ad. sk. 



o. $ ad. ; p. S 

 juv. sk. 



q, r. S 2 ad. sk 



s. c? ad. sk. 



t, u. S ad. sk. 



V, w. c? ad. sk. 



.V. (S ad. sk. 



Nubia {Hedejiho !■[/). 



HorTauiauib, Nubia {J. K. Lord). 



Sennaar. 



Anseba Valley, Bogos, July 23. 



Ailat, June 29 (IT. Jesse). 

 Bejook, July 16 {W. Jesse), 

 Ain, feamhar, July 6. 



Azoos, Samliar {Esler). 



Abyssinia. 

 Zoulla, Feb. 4. 



Koomavlee, March 28 ( W. Jesse). 



Undul Wells, May 28 ( W. Jesse). 



Shoa, March, April (O. Antinori). 



Shoa, May {Sir W. C. Harris). 



Southern Arabia {Ilemprich ^• 



Ehrenhery). 



y,z. (S 2 ad. sk. Aden, 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sal vin-Godman Coll, 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



Sir A. Smith. 

 W.T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 India Mus. 

 Shelley Coll. 



C 



Esq. 



«', b'. (S 2 ad. Lahej, Aden, Jan. 



Chevallier, 

 Major Yerbury [P.]. 



2. Hyphantornis castanops. (Plate XTII. fig. 1.) 

 Ploceus castanops, Shellet/, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 35. 



Adult male. Similar to H. xanthopterus but with the back green ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts as 

 ■well as the secondaries blackish, rather broadly edged with yellow ; 

 the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with 

 yellowish green ; crown, sides of neck, and under surface of body 

 yellow as in H. xanthopterus, the base of the forehead, lores, fore 

 part of cheeks and ear-coverts, and entire throat, chestnut : " bill 

 black ; feet reddish ; iris straw-yellow " (Emiu Pasha). Total 

 length 5-S inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-8, tail 1-75, tarsus 0"9. 



Ilah. Equatorial Africa. 



a-e. S ad. ; /. 2 

 juv. sk. 



"Wadelai, x^ug. 



Emin Pasha [P.]. 

 (Types of species.) 



