51. HTPHANTOEMS. 461 



edged with olive-yellow, paler on the inner secondaries, which are 

 like the greater coverts ; centre tail-feathers olive-brown, dusky 

 towards the ends, edged with olive-yellow; remainder brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow, paler on the inner web ; forehead and vertex 

 black, the line being drawn a little behind the eyes, the black occu- 

 pying the whole of the ear-covcrts, cheeks, and throat, and coming 

 to a point on the lower throat ; the hinder crown chestnut, ending off 

 with deep orange on the nape and hind neck ; sides of neck bright 

 yellow ; sides of lower throat, fore neck, and chest distinctly orange ; 

 remainder of under surface of body bright yellow, with a slight wash 

 of orange along the sides of body ; iiauks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts yellow ; quills below dusky, 

 whitish along the inner edge. Total length S'-i inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 2-8, tail 1-8, tarsus 0*85. 



Hub. Shoa, perhaps extending to the Victoria Nyanza. 



a. c? ad. sk. Shoa (<SV;- W. C. Harris). India Museum. 



(Type of species.) 



24. Hyphantornis cabanisi. 



Hyphantornis capitalis {)iec Lath.), Licht. Nomencl. Ac. p. 50 



(1854). 

 Hyphantornis mariquensis (nee Smith), Licht. t. c. p. 50 (1854). 

 Ploceus capitaUs (nee Lath.), Reichenb. Singv. p. 77, Taf. xxxvii. 



fig. 276 (1861, pt). 

 Hypbantoriiis cabanisi, Peters, J. f. O. 1868, p. 133; Gray, Hand-l. 



'U. ii. p. 42, no. 6584 (1870) ; Fi^isch Sf- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 3!)0 



(1873): Ftscher, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 331 (1884); id. J. f. O. 



1885, p. 133. 

 Ilypbautornis uigrifrons (nee Cab.), Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 380; 



~8harpe in Oates' Matabvle-Land, p. 319 (1881) ; Shellei/, P. Z. 8. 



1881, p. 584; ? Holuh iy Von Peh. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 116 



(1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 326 (1884)." 



Adult male. Similar to H. intcrmedius, but with the back of the 

 head orange-yellow, not chestnut, with a line of chestnut separa- 

 ting the black frontal patch from the hinder crown : " bill black ; 

 feet brown ; iris yellowish white" (J'. E. Buckley). Total length 

 5-9 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-8o, 



Adult female. Different from the male. Olive-yellow, with dusky 

 centres to the feathers of the back ; lower back, rump, and u])per 

 tail-coverts clearer and uniform olive-yellow ; wings and tail as in 

 the male ; head olive-greenish, with a bright yellow eyebrow ; lores 

 and sides of face bright yellow ; throat white with a yellow tinge ; 

 fore neck washed with safiron-yellow : lower breast and abdomen 

 white ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts white with a yellow tinge ; 

 under wing-coverts isabelline with a yellow tinge. Total length 

 4-0 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-75. 



The adidt male in winter plumafje probably resembles the adult 

 female, to judge from specimens in full moult in the Museum. 



