74 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on some recent [Ibis, 



1893, p. 177 [Jaunde, Cameroon] ; id. J. f. O. 1896, pi. iv. 

 upper fig., ? . 



The male resembles the male o£ H. preussi (Reichw.), but 

 the entire top of the head and nape are golden yellow ; the 

 throat is black, partly yellow on the middle of the basal 

 portion^ and the rump is black instead of yellow. 



The female differs from the female of S. preussi in having 

 the crown as well as the forehead black and only the occiput 

 yellow ; while the chin and middle of the throat are yellow, 

 the sides of the head and sides of the neck only being black; 

 rump black. 



Apparently confined to West Africa : Cameroon. 



Hyphantornis aurantius (Vieill.). 



According to the most recent works the female of this 

 species is said to be similar to the male, but with the upper 

 parts olive-green. In the British Museum there are two 

 females of this species which have the appearance of being 

 fully adult; in these birds the chin, throat, fore-neck, and 

 sides of the head are pale dull olive-yellow, and the rest of 

 the uuflerparts are white, greyish on the sides and flanks. 



Sitagra ocularia crocata Hartl.? 



Specimens of a subspecies of S. ocularia agree with the 

 description of Floceus ocularius brachypterus given by 

 Reichenow, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 47 ; but the bird described 

 by him is not Ploceus brachypterus Swains. (Birds 

 W. Afr. i. p. 168, pi. x.) The latter has the entire crown 

 and nape golden orange-brown and a differently shaped 

 culmen, while in the present form the forehead and crown 

 are golden-yellow and the occiput is olive-yellow like the 

 nape ; the culmen, moreover, is nearly straight, not curved 

 as in S. brachypterus. 



Malimljiis coronatus Sharpe. 



Immature males and females in first plumage have the 

 bill light horn-colour instead of black, the lower mandible 

 in dry skins being whitish. In both scales there is an 

 orange-brown patch on the crown which is apparently 



