52. CIXXAMOPTERYX. 473 



black on the mantle, the head slightly more olive ; lower back and 

 rump reddish brown, deepening on the tail-coverts ; wings blackish 

 the median and greater coverts margined with whity brown, a little 

 more olive on the greater series and primaries ; tail-feathers brown ; 

 lores and sides of face brown with an ochreous wash ; under surface' 

 of body ohve-yellow, the middle of the breast and abdomen sulphur- 

 yellow, the chest, sides of body, thighs, and under tail-coverts tawny 

 buff: "iris brown" (&. E. Shelley). Total length 5-5 incheb^ 

 culmen (>75, wing 2-95, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. West Africa from Senegambia to the Congo. 



a. S ad. sk. Efuenta, Wasa, Gold Coast. Sir R. Burton &Capt. 

 A » J X AT. Cameron fP.l. 



b.^a.d.;c--f. Ashantee. Gould CoD. 



Juv. or 5 



ad. sk. 



ff, h. Juv. sk. Fantee. Sharpe Coll. 



i,k. (fad. sk. Abroboiiko, Cape Coast, Jan. 30 Shellev Coll 



(G. E. S.). •' 



/, wj, n. cJad. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. (G. ^. ^. Shellev Coll 



sk. 4- T. E. Biukleij). ^ 



o. <S ad sk. Accra (Capt. Hmjnes). Sharpe Coll. 



p. 6 ad. sk. Eiver Volta {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll 



q. (S ad. sk. Onitscha, R. Niger, Aug. ' ( W. Forbes Coll.' 



A. F.). 



r, s. Ad. St. R. Niger. Mrs. Heywood. 



3. Cinnamopteryx rubiginosa. 



Ploceus rubigiuosus, Riipp. Xeiie Wirb. p. 03, pi. 33 fio- 1 (183.5-40') • 

 id. Syst Uebers. p. 76 (1845) ; Heiiyl. 8,/st. Uebers^'r,. 38 (1856)' 

 Rewhenb. -^'^f ; P,- 83, Taf. xli. fig. 311 (1861); Iteichen. ZooL 

 Jahrb. 1. p. 128 (1886) ; SheHey, Ibis, 1887, p. 38. 



Hypl.antornis rubigiuo.-a, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 351 (1849) • Ilartl 

 Orn W.-Afr. p. 127, note (1857) ; Heuyl. J. / 0. 1867,'p. 383 ;' 



Q-Q ^o?-'i^W- P- ?''*^ ^^^"°)' ^^'- P- c-^^i (1871) ; Cab. J. f. O. 



18/8, p. 231 ; Fisc^wr, J.f. O. 1885, p. 1.33. -^ 



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

 Hyphantornis castaneosoma, Reidien. Orn. Centralbl 1881 n 70- 



id. J.f. 0. 1881, p. 334. ' P ' 



Adtdt male. General colour above uniform light bay or chestnut 

 from the nape to the upper tail-coverts, the latter somewhat paler • 

 scapulars chestnut, with black centres; lesser wing-coverts ashv 

 brown, slightly mottled with black centres : median and greater 

 coverts black, edged and tipped with white or reddish white • bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged \^ ith whitv brown 

 the secondaries with broader white margins ; tail-feathers brown' 

 with pale olive-brown edges ; crown of head black ; occiput and 

 nape like the back ; lores, feathers round eye, sides of face ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, and throat black, having a sharplv-defined line alono- 

 the sides of neck, which are rich chestnut like 'the fore neck and 

 remainder of the under surface of body, becoming paler on 

 the abdomen, sides of body, Hanks, and under tail-coverts the 

 latter with whitish ends; uader wing-coverts and axillaries 



