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them to be very common in Fautee, genei'ally frequenting the 

 bamboo and cane-brakes, where hundreds of their pendent 

 nests were to be seen. He also procured specimens at the 

 Volta River. In Togoland Mr. Baumann found it known to 

 the natives at Logba as the " Karue," and in Dahome, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Francis Newton, it was known at Passe as the 

 " Cangole." In the Niger district specimens have been 

 collected at Onitscha (Forbes), Axim (Hartert), and Lower 

 Niger (Ansorge). From further south it is known to me only 

 from Gaboon (Aubrey Lecomte) and Landana (Lucan and 

 Petit). 



Cinnamopteryx tricolor. (Pi. 38.) 



Hyphantornis tricolor, Hartl. J. f. O., 1854, p. 110 Sierra Leone. 



Cinnamopteryx tricolor, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 471 (1890) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 567 (1896). 



Hyphantornis fuscocastanea, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 58 Loema B. 



Ploceus fuscocastaneus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 53 (1904). 



Ploceus rufoniger, Eeichen. Om. Monatsb. 1893, p. 29 Kinjaivanga. 



Adult. Upper parts jet black, with a large patch of canary yellow 

 extending over the hinder half of the neck and the upper back ; portion of 

 the inner margins of the quiUs brownish white ; upper and middle throat 

 black like the entire head ; remainder of the neck and the breast uniform 

 chestnut ; thighs and under tail-coverts black. Iris and feet brown ; bill 

 black. Total length 5'6 inches, culmen 0'75, wing 3'5, tail 2-0, tarsus 0'85. 

 24. 2. 72, Abouri (T. E. Buckley). 



Immature. Differs in having the head, neck and front of back chestnut, 

 slightly mottled with yellow near the base of the hind neck ; front of neck 

 and breast dusky brown mottled v?ith pale chestnut ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts blackish. Total length 6-0, culmen 0-8, wing 3-35, tail 2-0, tarsus 

 0-85. 24. 2. 72, Abouri (T. E. Buckley). 



In the type of H. fuscocastanea the under parts are entirely chestnut ; 

 wing 3'35. 



The Yellow-mantled Cinnamon- Weaver ranges from Sierra 

 Leone to Loango and eastward to 29° 30' E. long. 



The species is abundant at Sierra Leone, where the late 

 Capt. Sabine discovered the type, a tine specimen, which is 



