472 PLOCETDiE. 



Adult male. General colour above Llack with a slight gloss ; quills 

 and tail black ; mantle golden yellow ; entire head and throat black ; 

 remainder of under surface iiom the lower throat downwards rich 

 chestnut ; sides of body, tlanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts black, 

 the latter edged with chestnut ; axillaries and under wing cc verts 

 black ; quills blackish below, ashy whitish along the inner web : 

 " bill black ; feet greyish brown; iris brown" '{J. Biittikofcr). 

 Total length G-3 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-5, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult fhnale. Similar to the male in colour (/. Buttikofer). 



A young bird has the head dusky brown mixed with black ; the 

 throat dusky reddish brown with a tinge of chestnut ; the breast 

 not so bright a chestnut as in the adult. 



Ilah. A\'est Africa from Sierra Leone to the Loango Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 



(Type of P. colhiris.) 

 h. c? ad. sk. Fantee. Sharps Coll, 



c. S jnv. sk. Fantee. S. D. Aubinn [C.]. 



d. (S ad. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzv, Esq. [P.]. 

 (,'. Ad. sk. Fantee. Shelley Coll. 



f~h. Ad. et juv. sk. Aguapim, Feb. ( T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buekh'ij). 



2. Cinnamopteryx castaneofusca. 



Ploceus castaneofuscus, Less. liev. Zool. 1840, p. 99 ; Beichenb. 



Sitigv. p. 83 (18G1) ; lieichen. Zool. Juhrh. i. p. 12t) (1886) ; Bilttik. 



Notes Leyclen Mus. viii. p. 258 (1886), x. p. 88 (1888), xi. p. 134 



(1889) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 38. 

 ? Ploceus isabellina, Zess. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 226 ; Eeichenb. Singv. 



p. 83 (1861). 

 Ily phantom is castaneofusca. Gray, Gen, B. ii. p. 351 (1849) ; Hartl, 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 126 (1857); id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 175; S/iaiye, 



Ibis, 1869, p. 191; Meugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 561 (1870), iv. 



p. cxxxi (1871) ; Shariw, Cat. Afr. 'B. p. 59 (1871) ; Shel/a/ ^ 



Buclley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289; Beichen. >^'- Liihder, J. f. 0. 1873, 



p. 215 ; TJs^lier, Ibis, 1874, p. 67 ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 39 ; 



SJiarpe ^- Bouiier, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 74 (lb78) ; Oust. 



Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 139 (1879) ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, 



p. 557 ; .Forbes, Ibis, 1883, p. 506 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 552 ; Biittik. 



Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 192 (1885). 

 Hyphantornis isabellina, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849). 

 Textor castaneofuscus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 442 (1850). 

 Cinnamopteryx castaneofusca, Hartert, J.f. O. 1886, p. 585. 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut, slightly mottled with 

 Mack bases to the feathers, especially on the scapulars, which are 

 black, tipped with chestnut : upper tail-coverts black ; wing-coverts, 

 quills, and tail black ; head, nape, and hind neck, as well as the 

 sides of the head, entire throat, and breast black, leaving only the 

 abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts chestnut; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts black : quills below black : " bill black " 

 (J. Buttil-ofir) ; " legs dark livid ticsh-cobur " ( W. A. Forbes) ; 

 ■'iris yellow" {Shelley ^- BucMei/). Total length G-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-8, wing 3-25, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Brown, streaked with 



