22 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



133. Ploceus nigricollis. 



Malimbus nigricollis, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805^ p. 74;, pi. 45, 

 S, Congo. 



Ploceus flavicapillus, Vieill. N. D. xxxiv. 1819, p. 128, (^ , 

 Congo. 



Ploceus nigricollis^ Vieill. t. c. p. 129. 



Ploceus jonquil faceus, Vieill. t. c. p. 130, ? . 



Ploceus atrogularis, Voigt, Cuv. Thierr. i. 1831, p. 564. 



Ploceus atricapilla, " Vieill.,^' Less. Compl. Buff. viii. 1837, 

 p. 307 (err. Tpro flavicapilla) . 



Sycobius St. Thomce, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 109 ; id. 

 Abhandl. nat. Ver. Hamb. 1848, pi. 9 (very bad). 



Symplectes nigricollis, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 439. 



Hyphantornis grayi, J. & E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 

 1851, p. 514. 



Symplectes chrysophrys, J. & E. Verr, t. c. 1855, p. 106, 

 Gaboon. 



Estrelda jonquillacea, Miill. J. f. O. 1856, p. 116. 



Ploceus tricolor, Temm. MS. 1854, fide Hartl. (nee Hartl. 

 1854) Orn. W.-Afr. 1857, p. 135. 



Hyjihantornis flavigula, Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 134, 

 Gaboon. 



Hyphantornis nigricollis, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 87, 

 pi. 44. fig. 325. 



Hyphantornis jonquillaceus, Reichb. 1. c. 



Hyphanto7'nis amauronotus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 27, 

 Loango. 



Hah. W. Africa, from the Congo river to Senegambia. 



134. Ploceus melanoxanthus. 



Sycohrotus nigricollis, F. & H. (nee Vieill.) Vog. Ostafr. 

 1870, p. 405 (part E. Afr.). 



Hyphanturgus melanoxanthus, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. P.05, 

 232, ? , Mombas. 



Hijphanturgus nigricollis, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 232, (^. 



Sycohrotus melanoxanthus, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 585, 



Hah. E. Africa : Zanzibar Province, between about 1° and 

 10° S. lat. 



