DINEMELLIA DINEMELLI 311 



Dinemellia dinemelli. 



Texto dinemelli, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers, pp. 72, 76, pi. 30 (1845) Shoa ; 



Gray and Mitch. Gen. B. ii. p. 350, pi. 87, fig. 2(1819) ; Bartl. Mon. 



Weaver-birds, Pt. i. pi. i. fig. 1 (1888). 

 Dinemellia diuemelli, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 506 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 459 (1896) ; Elliot, Field Col. Mus. Orn. i. p. 36 



(1897) ; Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 259 Abyssinia; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. 



p. 7 (1904). 

 Tester leucocephalus, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 72 (1845). 

 Dinemellia ruspoli, Salvad. Mem. Ace. Torino, 1894, p. 558 Somali; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 460 (1896). 



Adults. Head, neck and breast white ; remainder of the upper parts 

 brown, with the lower back, upper tail-coverts and a few of the least wing- 

 coverts orange-shaded vermilion ; broad white bases to the primaries ; 

 scapulars, greater wing-coverts and secondaries with broadish buff outer 

 edges ; tail uniform brown ; under surface of wings sepia brown, with a 

 broad band of white across the base of the primaries ; thighs dark brown ; 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts orange shaded vermilion. " Iris 

 brown ; bill and legs blackish." Total length 8-2 inches, culmen 095, 

 wing 4-7 and 4-4, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-2. S , H- !• 00, and 2 , 10. 1. 00. Lake 

 Baringo (Delamere). 



Ti/2}e of D. ruspolii. Smaller ; brown parts paler ; basal white portion 

 of quills less sharply defined ; basal portion of inner webs of the primary- 

 coverts white and the bend of the wing washed with red. Wing 4-4. 



Vur. Ditfers from typically coloured specimens in having the mantle and 

 wings mostly white, shading into brown towards the centres of the feathers, 

 and darker brown at the end portion of the primaries ; shafts of quills white ; 

 the red on the wing less sharply marked, but extending as a scarlet wash on 

 to the base of the first primary ; tail pale brown, with the shafts of the 

 feathers white ; thighs brownish buff. Culmen 0'85, wing 4-3. , Foot of 

 Goohs Eange (L. Phillips). 



Dinemell's White-headed "Weaver ranges from the latitude 

 of Zanzibar into Southern Abyssinia and the Sudan. 



The most southern range known to me for this species is 

 Mamboio, half-way between Zanzibar Island and Ugogo, in 

 which latter country it is replaced by D. boehmi. It is 

 represented in the British LIuseum from the following places : 

 Mamboio (Kirk), Masailand (J. Thomson), Ukamba (Hilde- 

 brandt), Useri River (Hunter), Elgeyu and Batzsuraa (Jackson), 



