34 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



Textor ruhiginosus, Heugl. (nee Riipp.), J. f. O. 1862, 

 p. 27. 



Hypliantornis dimidiata, Salvad. & Antin. Att. R. Ace. Tor. 

 viii. 1873, p. 360; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. iv. 1873, p. 483, 

 pi. 3. 



Ploceus dimidiatus, Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. Jena, i. 1886, 

 p. 130, pi. 5. fig. 3. 



Hab. N.E. and E. Africa : between about 16° N. lat. and 

 4° S. lat., from Kassala to Little Arucha. 



It is, I consider, impossible to determine for certain to 

 what species P. affinis, Heugl., really belongs, as it is in the 

 dull female dress, but Dr. Reichenow is probably correct in 

 referring it to the present one. 



159. Ploceus badius. 



Hyphantornis badius, Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1850, p. 57, 

 Fasoglo. 



Ploceus 7'ufocitrinus, Miill. Naum. iv. 1851, p. 28. 



Ploceus mordoreus, Licht. MS. fide Bp. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 

 1855, p. 76. 



Ploceus badius, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 83, pi. 41. figs. 

 309, 310. 



Textor galbula, Antin. (nee Riipp.), Cat. 1864, p. 62 ( ? ), 

 fide Salvad. Att. R. Ace. Tor. 1870, p. 240. 



Textor castaneo-auratus , Antin. Cat. p. 65. 



Ploceus, sp. ?, Heugl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 98. 



Hyphantornis axillaris, Heugl. J. f. O. 1867, pp. 298,381. 



Hab. N.E. Africa : White Nile district. 



160. Ploceus capitalis. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 



Capital Tanaffer,'Lsiih. Syn. Suppl. i. 1787, p. 162, pi. 112, 

 very bad. 



Tanagra cajntalis, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 1790, p. 432. 



Hyphantornis capitalis. Gray & Mitchell; Gen. B. ii. 1849, 

 p. 351 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 550, Abutschi and Shongo on 

 Niger; Sharpe ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 1884, p. 442. 



Hab. S. and W. Africa : Niger river. 



In the British Museum there is a specimen labelled 

 '' S. Africa,^' and another, Hyphantornis prosoborinus, with 



