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365. Hyphantornis Auricapillus. (Swains.) 



An. in Menag., p. 346. 



Head above, iipper tail-covers, and all the under parts, 

 bright-yellow ; back feathers have an olive tinge, with an 

 almost imperceptible dusky stripe ; frontal line, lores, ears, 

 and chin, velvet-black ; above the first, rufous. Length, 6" ; 

 wing, o 1 . 



Inhabits South Africa. — Dr. Burchell's Coll. ; Swain., loc. cit., non. 

 vidi. 



Genus SYCOBIUS, Vieillot. 



Bill as long as the head, with the culmen and the lateral 

 margins curved, the latter very slightly sinuated ; the 

 nostrils basal, exposed, and rounded ; wings moderate, and 

 somewhat rounded, with the first quill very short, the second 

 equalling the eighth, the third longer than the seventh, and 

 the fourth and fifth of equal length ; tail moderate, and even, 

 or slightly rounded ; tarsi robust, and strongly scaled ; toes 

 moderate, with the inner toe shorter than the outer, and the 

 claws strong, and curved, especially that of the hind toe. 



366. SyCObiUS BiCOlor, Vieil; Ency. Meth, p. 

 698; Symplectes Chrysomus, Swain., Nat. Lib., Vol. 



II, p. 170 ; Fringilla Oregalis, Licht. ; PI. Chryso- 

 gaster, Vieil. ; JEupodes XanthosomuSy Jard. and Selby, 



III. Orn., N. S., PI. 10 ; Syncobrotus Bicolor, Caban., 

 Pyranga Icteromelas, Vieil. ; Hartlaub., Orn. W. Af. 

 p. 135. 



Above, dark-brown, tinged with green, including wings, 

 tail, sides of head, ears, and neck ; chin dirty- white, tinged 

 with pale yellow, mottled with brown ; rest of under parts 

 bright yellow. Length, 6" 3'" ; wing, 3" 2'" ; tail, 2" 3'". 



A single specimen of this bird was procured by Henry Bowker, Esq., 

 of the !^ontier Armed and Mounted Police, in the country beyond 

 the Kei, and kindly presented to the Museum by Lady Wodehouse, 

 the wife of the present Governor of the Cape Colony. Another speci- 

 men appears in a collection formed near Algoa Bay, and now in the 

 possession of Professor Newton, of Cambridge. 



Genus PLOCEUS, Cuvier. 

 Bill short, thick at the base, pointed at the tip, laterally 

 compressed, with the culmen smooth, rounded, and advancing 

 on the forehead in a point ; the lateral margins slightly 

 sinuated, and angulated at the base, and the gonys lengthened 

 and ascendiQg upwards ; the nostrils basal, rounded, and 



