51. nrpHANTOExis. 467 



fj. If. mariquensis. 



a g. c? ad. liiem. Bejoud Kurrichaiue. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



et § ad. slv. (TyiDes of Ploceus mariquensis.) 



h. (S ad. sk. Interior of Cape Shelley Coll. 



Colony {Butler). 



». [Jad.Jsk. Cole.sbergC.-l.i-^. 0/-</e;;^))- Sharpe Coll. 



k, I. (S 2 Ijiem. sk. Eusteuburg-, Aug. ( W. Shelley Coll. 



Lucas), 



m, 7t. (S 2 ad. sk. Matahele-Land, Oct. W. E. & C, G. Gates, 



{F. Oates). Esqs. [P.]. 



0, 2). d ad. sk. Limpopo River, Nov 22 Shelley Coll. 



{T.E.Buckley). 



q,r. J imm. ;s-ia Damara-l^and (C. /. Sharpe Coll. 



S 2 liieni. sk. Andersson). 



.^'. (S ad. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Shelley Cull. 



Jan. 22 (C. J. A.), 



y. (S ad. sk. Humbe, Cimene Eiver Shelley Coll. 



{J. Anchiefa). 



z. c? ad. sk. Humbe (/. A.). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



28. Hypljantornis taBniopterus. 



Ploceus intermedins {nee Bilpp.), Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. .38 (18o6) ; 



Heuyl. J.f. O. 1862, p. 26, 18G7, p. 383. 

 Ploceus tteniopterus, lieichenb. Sinyv. p. 78, pi. xxxtI. figs. 281, 282 



(1861) ; Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 151 (1880) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, 



p. 28. 

 Hyphantornis tsenioptera, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 42, no. 6583 (1870) ; 



Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 554, Taf. xviii. fig. h (1870), iv. p. cxxx 



(1871) ; Hartl. Abliandl. nat. Ver. Bre^nen, \ii. p. 99 (1881) ; Feh. 



Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, xxx. p. 506 (1882). 

 Hyphantornis atrogularis {nee Voiyt), Finsch Sj- Ilartl. Vog. Osiafr. 



pp. 394, 395 (1870). 



Adult male. Similar to H. vitellinus, and with chestnut on the head, 

 but with a narrow band of black across the forehead : the sides of 

 the face and cheeks only black as far as the line of the eye ; ear- 

 coverts chestnut where they adjoin the black, becoming afterwards 

 golden yellow like the sides of the neck; the black on the throat 

 produced on the lower throat to the beginning of the fore neck, 

 and everywhere surrounded by chestnut : " bill black ; feet reddish ; 

 iris reddish dusky " ( Von JJevglin). Total length 5 inches, culmeu 

 0'05, wing 2-7, tail 1'6, tarsus 0-8. 



YouiKj male. Scarcely difi'erent from the female of //. vitellinus, 

 but more distinctly streaked above. Total length o'S inches, 

 culmen O'Go, wing 2-8, tail 1-7, tarsus O'So. 



Hah. White K^ile from 10° N. lat. to the Lado district. 



a. <5 ad. sk. White Nile (refJicrick). Tweeddale Coll. 



b,c. cJ iid. et juv. sk. Lado, March, May {Emin Shelley Coll. 



Vdsha). 

 d. (S ad. sk. J3or, July 10 {Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



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