51, HTPHANTOENIS. 451 



13. Hyphantomis cucuUatus. 



Le Pinion de Seni^gal, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 173, pi. 15. fig. 2 (176U). 

 Le Cap-more, Month. Hist. Nat. Ots. iii. p. '226 (1775). 

 Tioiipiale du Senegal, iJaubent. PL Etil. iii. pis. 375, 376. 

 Oriolus cucLillatus, P. L. S. Midi. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 87 (177(3) ; 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p.*242. 

 Weever Oriole, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. ii. p. 435 (1782). 

 Oriolus textor, Gm. Sijst. Nat. i. p. SSJO (1788). 

 Ploeeus textor, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 128(1819); 



Stcains. B. IF. Afr. i. p. 167 (1837); Gordon, Contr. Orn. 184'J, 



p. 9 ; Beichenb. Singv. p. 79, Taf. xxxviii. figs. 292, 294 (1861), 

 Fringilla velata, pt. {nee T.), Licht. Verz. Boubl. p. 23 (1823). 

 Fringilla longirostris, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 591 (1823). 

 Ploeeus seuegalensis, Shaiv, Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 34 (1826) ; Swains. 



Zool. III. n. a. pi. 37. 

 Ploeeus modestus, Hartl. Eev. Zool. 1845, p. 406. 

 Hypliantornis textor, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; Cab. Mus. 



Hein. Th. i. p. 181 (1850); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 124 (1856); 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Aead. 1859, p. 133 ; Hkrtl. J. f. O. 1861, 



p. 175; S/iarpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 191 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 612 ; id. 



Cut. Afr. B. p. 59 (1871) ; SheUey Sr Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289 ; 



Beiehen. ^- Lithder, J.f. O. 1873, p. 214 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68 ; 



Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 130; Oust. Nour. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. 



Bull. p. 108 (1879) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1883, pp. 506-518; Shelley, t. c. 



p. 550 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 190 (1885), viii. p. 259 



(1886). 

 Hyphantomis modesta, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849). 

 Textor inelauocephalus {iicc Gjti.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 440 (1850). 

 H^'phantoinis maguirostris, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 127 {e.i Verr, 



MSS.). 

 Ploeeus maguirostris, Beichenb. Si7iyv. p. 82 (1861). 

 Ploeeus solitarius, Pr. Wiirtt. ; Heuyl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 297. 

 Ilyphantoriiis gambiensis, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 652 (1870), 



iv. p. cxxx (1871). 

 Hypbantoniis cucullata. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 40, no. 0557 (1870). 

 Hyphantomis cincta {nee Cass.), Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 72. 

 Ploeeus eueullatus, Beichen. Zool. JaJirb. i. p. 133 (1886) ; Biittik. 



Notes Leyden Mus. viii. p. 259 (1886); Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 36; 



Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 88 (1888), xi'. p. 134 (1889). 



Adult male. General colour above golden yellow on the mantle, 

 with a broad black band down each side of the latter, which unites 

 across the lower back ; scapulars yellow, with black bases ; rump 

 and ujjper tail-coverts golden yellow, the long ones blackish with 

 olive-yellow ends : lesser wing-coverts black; median coverts golden 

 yellow, with black bases ; greater coverts black, edged with yellow, 

 more broadly at the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-eovert.s, and quills 

 black, margined with yellow, more broadly on the inner secondaries; 

 tail-featliers brown, washed with olive, margined with olive-yellow 

 externally and with pale yellow on the inner web ; crown of head 

 black ; hind neck and sides of neck deep chestnut, forming a collar; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat black, which descends 

 to a point on the lower throat, and is surrounded by deep chestnut 

 on the latter and on the fore neck ; remainder of under surface of 



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