450 PLOCEID^. 



a. S fifl- sic. Gaboon (/. Skertchley). Sharpe Coll. 



h. S 'id. sk. II. Congo. Commander Sperling 



[P.]. 



c, (1, e,f. c? ad. Lower Cong-o (Z. Petit). Shelley Coll. 



et juv. sk. 



g. S ad. sk. Benguela. Monteiro Coll. 



h. (S ad. sk. Katteubella, Oct. 30 (Sala). Sharpe Coll. 



17. Hyphantornis nigriceps. 



Hj-pliantornis larvatus (?iec R'dpp.), Sd. P. Z. S. 1804, p. 110 ; Kirk, 



Ibfs, 1864, p. ?,22. 

 Hyphantornis nigriceps, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 180 (1867) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii.p. 42, no. 6585 (1870/; Fimch ^ Hartl. Vog. 



Ostafr. p. 392 (1870) ; ? Giirney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255 ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1873, p. 715 ; Nickolsun, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 358 ; Cab. 



J. f. 0. 1878, p. 231 ; Fisc/ier ^- Reichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. 262, 



1880, p. 143 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, pp. 281, 302 ; Bocage, Jorn. 

 Lisb. 1880, p. 143 ; id. Orn. Anqola, p. 324 (1881) ; Gurney, Ibis, 



1881, p. 127; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 584; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. p. 436 (1884) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 330 

 (1884) {id. J.f. 0. 1885, p. 133; Souza, Jorn. Lisb. 1886, p. 16; 

 Matschie, J.f. 0. 1887, p. 154. 



Hyphantornis cucuUatus {iiec P. L. S. Miiller), Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 



"1867, p. 334. 

 Hyphantornis spinolotus {oxec Vig.), Fimch 4" Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. 



p. 393, pt. (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 59 (1871) ; Gurney 



in Anderss. B. Bam.-Ld. p. 169 (1872). 

 Ploceus nigriceps, Reichen. ZjoI. Jahrb. i. p. 137 (1886) ; Dubois, 



Bull. Mil's. R. Bclq. iv. p. 148 (1886); Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 35, 



1888, p. 302. 



Adult male. Similar to //. collaris and with the same yellow 

 back, mottled with black bases to the feathers ; the black of the 

 head not extending to the hind neck, which is orange-yellow like 

 the sides of the neck and underparts ; the black of the throat 

 descends in a point on to the fore neck, but there is no chestnut 

 as in H. collaris, the whole of the sides of the fore neck being 

 orange-yellow like the underparts : " bill black ; feet and claws 

 horny brown; iris orange" {G. A. Fischer). Total length 6-5 

 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-4, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Scarcely distinguishable from the female of 

 H. collaris, but with rather a shorter and stoiiter bill : "upper man- 

 dible brown, the lower one fulvous brown ; feet horn-brown ; iris 

 brownish yellow" (6r. A. Fischer). Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0'75, wing .S, tail 1"8, tarsus O'So. 



Hah. Eastern Africa from the Lake Regions to Mombasa and 

 south to the Zambesi, Natal, and Kuruman, occurring also at Lake 

 Ngami and in Benguela. 



a,b.(S2 ^d. sk. Mombasa ( Wakefield). Sharpe CoU. 



c,d.(S9. ad. sk, Mombasa. Rev. A. F. Buxton 



[P.]. 



e, S ad. sk. Mombasa (G. A. Fischer). Shelley Coll. 



f. 2 ad. sk. Manda Island. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



