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436 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA, 
Male.—General colour of under parts golden-yellow; forehead 
deep orange; back, rump, and shoulders greenish-yellow; chin, 
throat, and a transverse stripe enclosing the eye, deep-black bordered 
by a deep orange shade; bill black. In the female the chin and 
throat are not black, and all the colours less vivid. Length, 7’’ ; 
wing, 3’’ 3'’’; tail, 3 1’; irides yellow; bill narrow and 
curved. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. pl. 30, fig. 2. 
418. Hypnantornis cincra, Cass. Cassin’s Weaver Bird. 
This species is not uncommon in Benguela, according to Mr. 
Monteiro ; and Senor Anchieta found it very plentiful in the neigh- 
bourhood of Novo Redondo. It is a bird of large size, having the 
sides of the head and the throat black, and is nearly allied to the 
common HH. teator of Western Africa. It has the mantle, however, 
of a bright yellow evenly mottled with black, which brings it very 
near to H. nigriceps, but it may be told from the latter species by 
the chestnut on the sides of the lower throat and crop. 
Fig. Cass. Journ. Acad. Philad. v, pl. xxiii, fig. 2. 
419, Hypuantornis nickicers, Layard. 
Black-headed Weaver Bird. 
This species was originally forwarded to us by Dr. Moffat from 
Kuruman, and a specimen is in the British Museum from Natal. It 
is known to come also from Mozambique, and is apparently more 
plentiful along the coast of Eastern Africa and in the Zanzibar 
districts. Like H. cincta it has the entire head black, and the 
mantle bright yellow evenly mottled with black, but it has no 
chestnut on the sides of the lower throat and crop, these parts 
being yellow. : 
Mr. T. Ayres, who met with the present species when in company 
with Mr. Jameson, on the Umvuli River, writes :—‘‘ On the 1st of 
October we found a nest suspended over the water of one of the 
small rivers which run into the Umvuli on the north side; it con- 
tained two very pretty blue eggs. Subsequently a whole colony 
hung their nests over a pool of water close to our camp, but we left 
before the birds began to lay; this was in the middle of October. 
We later on found many nests hanging from the reeds on a small 
stream running into the Quaequae River. These nests much 
