88 ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCHES 



80. r iolu s h r achy rliy ncliu 8^ Sw. 

 Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 186; id. 1886, p. 258. 



Common in the forests near SchieiFelinsville and Hill Town. 



81. Ploceus cucullatus (P. L. S. Muller). 



Hyphantornis textor, Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 190. 



Ploceus cucuJlahis, id. 1886, p. 259. 



(For further references conf. Shelley, Ibis 1887, p. 36). 



Common in all the places visited by me from Cape 

 Mount down to Cape Palmas. 



82. Ploceus c a st a n e f u s cu s ^ Less. 

 Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 192; id. 1886, p. 258. 

 Common throughout Liberia. 



83. Ploceus tricolor^ Hartl. 

 Hyphantornis tricolor, Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 193. 



An adult female, collected in brushwood, near our sta- 

 tion at Schieffelinsville. 



This was the only specimen I chanced to meet with , 

 notwithstanding all my efforts to obtain more of them. 

 It is similar in color and size to the adult male. 



During my short stay at Robertsport in December 

 1886 , I visited the two places which formerly had fur- 

 nished me my specimens of P. aurantius (Notes 1885 , p. 

 188), but though it was the breeding-time, I could not 

 find any , and therefore suppose that they must have left 

 the places. 



84. Ploceus nig er r i m u s. 



Ploceus nigerrimus, Vieill. N. D. Vol. 34, p. 130. (1819); — 



Shelley, Ibis 1887, p. 38. 

 Sycobius nigerrimus, Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 133; — Boc. Orn. 



d' Angola, p. 333 (1881). 



During my stay at Schieffelinsville, I found a colony 



Notes from the Leyden IMaseutii, "Vol. X. 



