44(3 PLOCEIDiE. 



flesh-colour, the hitter clouded with bro-wn ; iris red" (Sir A. 

 Smifh). Total length 6-1 inches, culraen 0-7, wing 2-2, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Not very different from the male, but a little duller 

 in colour, and the yellow of the undcrparts less brilliant. Total 

 length 5-8 inches, culmeu 0-7, wing ;3-15, tail 1-95, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. S.E. Africa ; apparently confined to Natal ; ? Transvaal, 



a, b. cf ad. ; c, d.: Algoa Bay. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



5 ad. sk. (Types nf species.) 



e. cj ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



/. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Natal. Forbes Coll. 



ff. 2 ad. sk. Natal (T. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. 5 ad. sk. Lower Umgeni River, Jan. Shelley Coll. 



{T. Ayres). 



t. (J ad. sk. Durban {Gordr/e). Shelley Coll. 



k, I. S ad. sk. Pinetowu, July, Oct. {T. L. . Shelley Coll. 



Ayres). 



m. 5 ad. sk. Ladysmith, Natal, Nov. 18 Shelley Coll. 



(^Savile He id). 



6. Hyphantornis aureiflavns. (Plate XIII, fig. 4.) 



Ploceus nureoflavus, iSmifJi, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, text to pi. .50. 



fig. 1 (1839) ; Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. "121 (1886) ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1887, p. 26. 

 Hyphantornis aureoflavus. Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849); Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 122 (1857) ; Gray, Ha7id-l. B. ii. p. 41, no. 6571 



(1870) ; Finsch 8,- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 400 (1870) ; Cab. J. f. O. 



1878, p. 231 ; Fischer df Eeichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. 264, 1880, 



p. 142 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 584 ; Fischer, Zeitsehr. yes. 



Orn. i. p. 330 (1884) ; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 133. 

 Textor aureoflavus, Bj). Consp. i. p. 441 (1850). 

 Hyphautoruis aurea, Hartl. J. f. O. 1860, p. 180 (ex Naft. MSS.) ; 



Finsch, J. f. O. 1868, p. 109; Cab. in Von der Decken's i?e/.s. iii. 



p. 32 (1869). 

 Xanthophilus sulfureus, Beichenb. Singv. p. 84, Taf. xlii. fig. 313 



(1861). 

 Ploceus aurantius, var. (wee V.), Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc, 



xviii. p. 322 (1865). 

 Hyphautoruis concolor, Heuyl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 389. 

 Hyphantornis subaurea {tiec Smith), Hartl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 826. 



Adult male. Similar to H. suhaiireus, but much smaller and 

 brighter, with the rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellow ; outer 

 edge of the quills very bright yellow as wcU as the greater part of 

 the tail-feathers, which are pale olive on the outer web : " bill black ; 

 feet clear flesh-colour ; iris orange " {G. A. Fischer). Total length 

 5'8 inches, culmen 0"65, wing 3, tail 1*85, tarsus 0-9. 



In the female, according to Dr. Fischer, the iris is reddish brown, 

 the bill brown, with the base of the lower mandible buft'; feet 

 fawn-brown. 



Hab, East Africa, 



