464 PLOCEIDiE. 



brown chest, and in the strong tinge of reddish brown on the under 

 suriaco (licicJienow) : " bill black ; feet brownish flesh-colour ; iris 

 orange" (G. B. Fischer). 



Hah. Tanganyika district to the Kilimanjaro district. 



26. Hyphantornis shelleyi. 



Hvphantornis vitellina (?iec Licht^, Sharpe, ed. Lmjard's B. S. Afr. 

 ■p. 439 (1884). 



Adult male. Similar to //. intelUmts, but with rather distinct 

 blackish shafts on the back ; forehead orange, not chestnut ; the 

 black on the throat more extended, and reaching quite to the end of 

 the rami of the jaw ; chest scarcely tinged with orange. Total 

 length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-6.5, wing 3, tail 1-8, tarsus 0'85. 



Adxdt female. Similar to the female of H. vitellvius, but with 

 the back more distinctly streaked with dusky black. Total length 

 4"7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-6, tail V7, tarsus 0'85. 



Young males or, it may be, males in winter plumage have the 

 entire under surface yellow like the throat, instead of the abdomen 

 white. 



JIah. Zambesi region south to Swaziland, and westwards to 

 Damara-Land. 



a, I. c? , c. 2 acl. ; d, Tete, Zambesi. Sir J. Kirk [C. ]. 



e,f. (J juv. sk. 

 f/, h. cJ , 2. $ ad. sk. Swaziland, July {T. E. Buck- Shelley Coll. 



%). 

 k, I. cJ 2 ad. sk. Damara-Land, Jan., Feb. (C J. Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson) . 

 7n. S ad. sk. South Africa {Mus. Hulm.). Sharpe Coll. 



27. Hyphantornis velatus. 



Ploceus Telatus, Vieill. K. Diet. crHist. Nat. xsxiv. p. 132 (1819) ; 



Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Me'th. iii. p. 7U1 (1823) ; Eeichenb. Zoo!. 



Jahrb. i. p. 142 (1886) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 38 ; Biittik. Notes 



Ley den Mns. xi. p. 74 (1888). 

 Ploceus tahatali, Smith, Eep. E.iped. Centr. Afr. p. 50 (1836). 

 ? Ploceus personatus {nee V.), Sicains. An. in Menay. p. 306 (1837). 

 Ploceus auricapillus, Sicains. t. c. p. 346 (1837) ; Reichen. Zool. Jalirb. 



i. p. 144 (1886). 

 Ploceus mariqiiensis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 103 (1845). 

 Hyphantornis velata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 42, no. 6580 (1870) ; Finseh cS- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 391, 



note (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 254 ; Gurm-y in Anderss. B. 



Bam.-Ld. p. 169 (1872) ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 325 (1886) ; 



Butler, Feilden, <^- Eeid, Zool. 1882, p. 257 ; Sharj/e, ed. Bayard's 



B. S. Afr. pp. 439, 847 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1884, p. 228, 1885, 



p. 345. 

 Hyphantornis mariquensis, Gi-ay, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849); Gnrney, 



i/«'.s, 1868, p. 4C6, pi. X. : Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. 1870, p. 346 ; Ayres, 



Ibis, 1871; p. 254, 1873, p. 284, 1877, p. 3-15, 1880, p. 105 ; Shcupe, 



