51, HTPHANTOENIS. 463 



coverts with brighter yellow margins, inclining to whitish on tlio 

 edges; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, 

 edged with yellow, the innermost secondaries rather whiter on their 

 margins ; tail-feathers pale olive-brown, edged with yellow extern- 

 ally and with pale yellow along the inner web ; crown of head 

 chestnut as far as the middle, gradually fading off into golden 

 yellow on the hinder crown and nape ; feathers above the lores, the 

 lores themselves, feathers round eye, as well as a patch formed by 

 the sides of face, fore part of ear-coverts, and fore part of cheeks 

 black ; remainder of ear-coverts and cheeks as well as the sides of 

 the neck and \mder surface of body golden yellow ; chin and u])per 

 throat black, this colour not extending to the end of the rami of 

 the jaws ; the lower throat and fore neck tinged with rich orange ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; quills below dusky, 

 yellowish along the inner edge : " bill black ; feet reddish ; iris 

 pale brown " ( Von Heuglin). Total length 5"2 inches, culmeu 0*6, 

 wing 2"9, tail 1"75, tarsus 0"8. 



Adult female. Pale brown washed with yellow, and rather broadly 

 streaked with pale brown centres to the feathers ; the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts olive-yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back; 

 median and greater coverts dusky brown, with broad yellowish- 

 white edges, like the innermost secondaries ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with yellow ; tail-feathers 

 olive-brown, with yellowish margins to both the inner and outer 

 webs; crown of head uniform ashy brown washed with olive- 

 yellow ; a faint eyebrow and the feathers below the eye pale 

 yellowish ; ear-coverts light brown, washed with yellow ; throat 

 and chest light yellowish or yellowish butf ; remainder of breast 

 and abdomen isabelline white. Total length 4"6 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 2"6, tail 1'6, tarsus 0'7. 



Ilab. Senegambia and Korth-east Africa to the Equatorial region. 



a. c? fid. sk. West Africa. Shelley Coll. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Senegambia. Sharpe Coll. 



c. J ad. sk. [Senegambia.] Sir A. Smith. 



d. c? ad. sk. Accra (//. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 

 e,f. S 2 ad. sk. Accra, Feb., April (J. Smith). Shellev Coll. 

 ff, h. d 2 ad. sk. Accra, Feb. ( T. E. Buckley). Shelley Coll. 

 i. (5 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 

 k. c? ad. sk. Senaar {Hedenborij). Shelley Coll. 



I. cjimm.sk. Upper Nile. F. Galtou, Esq. [P.]. 



m. tS ad. sk, "NVadelai, Oct. 7. Emin Pasha [P.j. 



Subsp. a. Hyphantornis reichardi, 



Ploceus reichardi, Beichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 148 (1886). 

 Ilvphautoruis vitelliuus {nee Licht.), Fischer, Zeitschr. r/es. Orn. i. 



*p. 331 (1884) ; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 133 : Bokm, t. c. p. 70. 

 Ploceus vitellinus {nee Licht.), Dubois, Bull. Mus. H. Behj. iv. 



p. 148 (1846). 

 Hyphantornis reichardi, Mntschie, J.f. 0. 1887, p. 159. 



Closely allied to //. vitdlinus, but differing chiefly in the reddish- 



