438 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
421. Hypnanrornis temrorauts, Bocage. Temporal Weaver Bird. 
Recently described by Prof. Bocage from an example procured by 
Anchieta at Caconda in Benguela. We do not know the species, 
which is characterized by Prot. Bocage as being similar to H. guerini, 
but with the head and abdomen yellower. 
Total Length, 6 inches; bill, 0°65; wing, 3:4; tail, 2°05 
tarsus, 0°9. 
422, HypHANTORNIS sUBAUREUS, Smith. 
Canary-coloured Weaver Bird. 
This may be considered one of the rarest of the South African 
Weavers, as it does not occur within the limits of the colony. Sir 
Andrew Smith only met with a few specimens and those in the 
neighbourhood of Algoa Bay. Captain Shelley has received it from 
the vicinity of Durban, and Mr. T. E. Buckley procured a female in 
Swazi Land in June, 1876. Mr, Ayres has likewise met with it in 
the Transvaal. 
Front, crown, sides of the head, and throat bright saffron- 
yellow ; nape, back and sides of neck, back and shoulders between 
sulphur and gamboge-yellow ; vent light chrome-yellow ; bill liver- 
brown. Length, 6’’ 10’; wing, 3’’ 5’’’; tail, 2’’ 9’". 
Mr. Buckley found the soft parts as follows :—“iris ight hazel ; 
upper mandible horn colour, the under one lighter; legs dark 
brown.” ‘The species may be distinguished by the absence of black 
upon the head and face, the mantle being uniform olive-yellow; the 
under surface of the wings is golden yellow, the inner webs of the 
quills being broadly edged with that colour. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. pl. 30, fig. 1. 
423. HypHantornis xaAntHors, Hartl. Golden-faced Weaver Bird. 
This species may be shortly described as being very similar to 
H. subaureus, but differing from that species in having the throat 
faintly tinged with rufous, and haying the under surface of the wings 
browner, with the inner webs of the quills narrowly edged with buff. 
It was procured by Mr. Jameson on the Umvuli River on the 11th of 
September, where, however, it was not very common, feeding among 
the blossoms of the “ sausage tree.” ‘The iris is light tawny-yellow, 
the bill black, and the tarsi and feet pale brown. 
