51. HYl'HANTORNIS. 459 



Adult male. Similar to //. eapitalis, but rather darker olive- 

 yellow above, causiug the yellow collar on the hind neck to stand 

 out iu stronger relief; under surface of body also similar to //, 

 capltalis, but the black descending much more over the fore neck, 

 and the chestnut colour much more developed, pervading the whole 

 of the breast and sides of the body : " bill black ; feet dusky reddish ; 

 iris umber-brown " [Emin Pasha). Total length inches, culmen 

 U-7, -wiug 2'y, tail IS, tarsus U. 



Adidt female. Similar to the female of //. capitalis, but rather 

 larger and moi'c distinctly streaked with black centres to the dorsal 

 plumage : " bill dusky horn-colour, the mandible paler ; feet reddish ; 

 iris pale brown" [Eiiiin Pasha). Total length bb inches, culmen 

 0-G5, wing 2-U, tail 1-(J, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Equatorial Africa, from ^Yadelai to the Victoria jS^yanza. 



a-h. c? ; i-p. $ Wadelai, July, Aug. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



ad. sk, 

 q. (S ad. sk. Magungo, Dec. 1 (^Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



21. Hyphantornis diinidiatus. 



Ploceus affinis, Heu(/l. Si/^t. Uehers. p. 37 (185(3, descr. nulla). 

 Textor rubiginosus (nee liujip.), Ileiii/L J. f. O. 1802, p. '27. 

 llypbautoriiis dimidiata, Antin. lij- iialvad. Viat/r/. Bogos, p. 120, 



pi. Ill (i87.'j) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Oni.i. p. 3-'il (1884); id. 



J.f. O. 1885, p. l;i.3. 

 Ploceus dimidiatiis, lieichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. L30, pi. v. fig. 3 (1886) ; 



id. J.f. O. 1887, p. G8 ; tSheUey, Ibis, 1887, p. 33. 

 Ploceus jacksoni, !Shelle.i/, Ibis, 1888, p. 293, pi. vii. 



Adidt male. General colour above uniform bright golden yellow 

 from the hind neck to the tail ; lesser wiiig-coverts olive-greenish ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, the former broadly tipped, the 

 latter narrowly edged -with yellow ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, edged with bright yellow, the inner secondaries 

 more broadly ; tail-featliers ohve-brown, narrowly edged with olive- 

 yeUow externally, broadly margined with pale yellow on the inner 

 web ; entire head and hind neck, sides of face and throat black, 

 descending to a point on the fore neck ; all the sides of the neck 

 and fore neck, breast, and sides of body deep chestnut ; abdomen, 

 lower hanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts bright yellow, the latter 

 washed with chestnut ; axillaries and under wing-coverts bright 

 yellow ; quills dusky below, yellow along the inner webs : " bill 

 black; feet reddish brown; iris light orange "(6r. A. Fischer). 

 Total length 5-4 inches, culmen U'oo, wing 3"85, tail 1*7, tarsus 0"5. 



I/al). From Kassala in N.E. Africa to the Victoria Nyanza, and 

 Kilimanjaro district to Mauda Island. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Manda Island. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of P. jacksoni.) 



