51. HYPHANTORNIS. 465 



in Oates' Mat ahele- Land, p. 319 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, t . 353 ; 



At/res, Ibis, 1881, p. 229 ; Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 332. 

 Textor mariquensis, Bp. Consp. Ai\ i. p. 441 (1850). 

 Ilvphantornis nigrifrons, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 182 (1850) • 



'tirill, Zool. Anteclm. p. 22 (1859). v ^ ' 



rioceolus nigrifrons, Seichenh. Singv. p. 78, pi. xxxvii. %. 287 (1861). 

 Ploceus cliloronotus, Reichenb. t. c. p. 82, pi. xl. fio-s. 304, 305 



(1861). 

 Hypliaiitornis capitalis (nee Lath.), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 180 (1867) ; 



id. Ibis, 1869, p. 369 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 58 (1871) ; Buckley, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 379. 

 Hypliantornis auricapillua, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. ] 83 (1867). 

 ? Hyphantornis jetbiops, Ileiujl. J. f. O'. 1867, p. 380 ; id. Orn. 



iViO.-.d/;-. i. p. 451 (1870). 

 Hyphantornis tahatali, Layard, Ibis, 18G8, p. 267. 

 Hypliantornis cabanisi (nee Peters), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. d 58 



(1871). ^ 



Hyphantornis vitellinus {nee Licht.), Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 106. 

 Hyphantornis melanops. Cab. J.f. O. 1884, p. 240, pi. iii. %. 2. 



Adult male. General colour above greenish olive-yellow, narrowly 

 streaked with dusky centres to the feathers of the back and 

 scapulars, more distinct on the latter ; lower back rather more 

 ashy washed with olive ; rump yellow : upjjer tail-coverts greenish 

 yellow ; wing-coverts and quills brown, edged with olive-yeUow ; 

 tail-feathers olive-brown, edged with yellow, and narrowly fringed 

 with yellow along the inner web ; crown of head yellow, be- 

 coming orange or chestnut towards the forehead, which is black, 

 as well as the lores ; feathers round eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and throat black, narrowing to a point on the fore neck ; 

 sides of neck and remainder of under surface of body briglit yellow; 

 under wing-coverts ashy whitish, ^\ashed with yellow ; quills below 

 dusky, pale yellow along the inner edge : " bUl black ; tarsi and feet 

 pale dusky ; iris bright crimson " {T. Ayres). Total length 

 6-2 inches, culmen O-J, wing 2-3, tail 2"], tarsus 0-25. 



In winter Mr. Ayres says that the iris is light brown, the bill, 

 tarsi, and feet are pale dusky. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, somewhat ashy on the back, the whole mantle and back 

 rather thickly and broadly streaked with blackish-brown centres ; 

 scapulars like the back ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 more uniform ashy brown, the latter washed with olive-yellow ; 

 lesser wing-coverts ashy brown, with an olive tinge; median and 

 greater coverts blackish brown, edged with whity brown ; bastard- 

 wing, primai-y-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with olive- 

 yellow, the inner secondaries broadly margined with white : centre 

 tail-feathers olive-brown, the remainder dark brown with olive- 

 yellow margins externally, the inner webs narrowly margined with 

 yellowish white ; crown of head like the back, but less distinctly 

 mottled with dusky brown centres to the feathers, the head slightly 

 washed with olive; lores dusky; a faint eyebrow of ashy whitish, 

 olive on the hinder part ; sides of face and ear-coverts olive-brown ; 

 cheeks and throat sulphur-yellow, inclining to saffron on the fore 



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