462 



YowKj males, as I determine them, arc like the old females, but 

 brighter yellow above, especially on the head, and underneath they 

 are briglit yellow inclining to orange on the chest. 



Uah. Eastern Africa from the Zanzibar region to Matabcle-Laud 

 and JN^atal, extending to Damara-Land. 



(/. 5 ^d. sk. 



b. S imm. sk. 



c. S ad. sk. 



d-h. (S ad. etimm.; 



i. 5 ad. sk. 

 k. S imm. sk. 



2 ad. sk. 

 !. cS ad. sk. 



I 0. 2 ad. et 

 juy. sk. 



Lamu. 



Lamo {Sir J. Kirk). 

 PaBgani Iliver {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Matabele-Land, Sept. 2U, 



■1878 {T. E. Buckley). 

 Tati, Oct. 21 {F. Oates). 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[r.]. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Ooll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



W. E. &JC. G. Oates, 



Esqs. [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shellev Coll. 



Durban, Natal {T. L. Aijres) 

 Omaruru, Damara-Land, 



Feb. 11 {A. Erikson). 

 Swakop River, June, Dec. Sharpe Coll 



{C. J. Anderssoji). 



25. Hjrphantornis vitellinus. 



Friugilla vitellina, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 23 (1823). 



Ploceus ruhceps, Su-ains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 262 (1837) ; id. An. in 



Menaf/. p. 308 (1837); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 353 (1849). 

 Hyphan'tornis vitellina, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849); Ilartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 124 (1857); Fiiwck, J. f. O. 1868, p. 168; Ilciigl. 



t. c. p. 1(58; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. Taf. xviii. fiij. C (1870), iv. 



p. cxxx (1871); Gray, Hand-l B. ii. p. 42, no. 6582 (1870); 



Finsch Sf Ilartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 395 (1870, pt.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1872, p. 71 ; Shelley 'S,- Backlei/, t. c. p. 289; Ilartl. Abhayidl. nat. 



Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 200 (1882). 

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

 Ploceus sublarvatus, Miill. Naum. 1851, Heft iv. p. 28; id. Descr, 



Ois. d'Afr. pi. 12 (1854). 

 Textor galbula {nee Biipp.), Vierth. Naum. 1853, p. 21 ; Ajitin. Cat. 



descrr. Ucc. p. 63 (1864); Salmid. Atti R. Accad. Turin, v. p. 740 



(1870). 

 Ploceolus sublarvatus, Eeichenh. Singv. p. 77, Taf. xxxvi. figs. 279, 



280 (1861). 

 Ploceolus vitellinus, Eeichenh. t. c. p. 78, Taf. xxxvii. figs. 284, 285 



(1861). 

 Xantho])hilus sulphureus, Eeichenh. t. c. p. 84, Taf. xlii. fig. 313 



(1801). 

 Textor chrysopygus, Hevgl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 246. 

 Ploceus flavomarginatus, Pr. Witrtt.; teste Hevgl. J. f. O. 1807, 



p. 299. 

 Ploceus viteUinus, Eeichenh. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 148 (1886) ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1887, p. 27 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 35. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow, nearly uniform, 

 with only very faint indications of dusky centres to the feathers of 

 the back, the scapulars more distinctly centred with black ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-covcrts bright golden yellow ; wing- 

 coverts black, edged -with olivc-ycUow, the median and greater 



