470 . PtOCEID.'E. 



Adult male. General colour above mottled, the back olive-j'cllow, 

 with spear-shaped ceutral markings of black ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow, with rather brighter yellow tips 

 to the feathers ; wing-coverts dusky blackish, edged with yellowish 

 green ; median wing-coverts black, broadly tipped with yellow, 

 forming a broad wing-band ; greater coverts black, edged with dull 

 yellow ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, edged with 

 greenish yellow ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged narrowly with 

 olivc-yollow ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck deep golden 

 yellow, almost orange ; a narrow line commencing at the base of the 

 nostrils, passing just over the eye, lores, ear-coverts, sides of face, 

 cheeks, and throat black, descending to a point on the centre of the 

 lower throat ; remainder of under surface of bod}^ briglit yellow, 

 gradually deepening to orange-chestnut on the fore neck and sides 

 of the loAver throat ; Hank-feathers with some blackish subterminal 

 spots, not very distinctly indicated ; sides of upper breast like the 

 back, olive-yellow with black centres ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts pale tawny butf, with ashy bases and washed with yellow 

 near the edge of the wing, which is bright yellow ; quills dusky 

 below, olive-buff along the inner web : "bill black; feet carmine; 

 iris orange-red " {Antinori). Total length 5'5 inches, culmeu 0-75, 

 wing 3 25, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-9. 



Young male. Similar to the female of //. spilonotus, but much 

 darker, the dusky markings of the grey back more pronounced ; 

 throat and breast yellow {Cvll. F..J. Jackson). 



The adult female will doubtless be very similar to the young 

 male descril)ed. 



Ilah. From Shoa to the Somali Country, and south to Ukambani. 



a, h. (S ad. sk. Dembe and Dainibe, Shoa, April, Shelley Coll. 



May (O. Antinori). 



32. Hyphantornis superciliosus. (Plate XIV.) 



Hyphautornis supei-ciUojus, Shelley, Ibis, 1873, p. 140 ; Reichen. 



J. f. O. 1877, p. 27 ; Bocaeje, Orn. Angola, p. 330 (1881) ; Shelley, 



Ibis, 1883, p. 551. 

 Ploceus superciliosus, lieiehen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 155 (1886) ; id. 



J.f. O. 1887, p. 300; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. '27. 



Adult [female']. General colour above dull olive-yellow, the feathers 

 with dusky centres ; rump and upper tail-coverts browner, the 

 latter streaked with dusky ; wings entirely brown, the feathers with 

 whity brown edges, more distinct on the median and greater coverts ; 

 the primaries slightly tinged with olive on their edges : tail-feathers 

 dark brown ; crown of head blackish, washed with orange-yellow ; 

 the occiput and nape more olive like the back; a broad eyebrow of 

 golden yellow, deepening to orange on the fore part ; lores, feathers 

 round eye, sides of face, ear-coverts, and fore part of cheeks black ; 

 hinder cheeks and sides of neck golden yellow, as also the hinder 

 part of the ear-coverts ; throat black ; remainder of under surface 

 of body golden yellow, inclining to orange on the fore neck and 

 lower throat ; abdomen whitish ; flanks, thighs, and under tail- 



