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/-. Back, wings and tail black 



a^. Black eye-stripe extending forward to the bill . melanoxantlius. ■* 

 b^. Black eye-stripe confined to head behind the 



eye malensis. J f ^ 



Heterhyphantes insignis. 



Sycobrotus insignis, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, pp. 117, 253, pi. 6, fig. 1, $ 

 Mt. Elgon. 



Heterhyphantes insignis, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 516 (1896). 



Ploceus insignis, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 36 (1901:). 



Symplectes croconotus, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1892, pp. 185, 219 Biiea ; Sjost. 

 Sv. Ak. Handl. Stockh. 1895, p. 88, pi. 9, S . 



Heterhyphantes croconotus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 517 (1896). 



Symplectes preussi, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1893, p. 142, $ Victoria. 



Heterhyphantes preussi, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 518 (1896). 



Symplectes castanicapillus, Sjost. Orn. Mouatsb. 1893, p. 43 Camaroons. 



Heterhyphantes stephanophorus, laps. cal. pro. H. insignis, Sharpe, Bull. 

 B. O. C. V. p. 43 (1897). 



Adult male. Forehead and crown chestnut ; neck, back, breast, thighs 

 and under tail-coverts golden yellow, slightly mottled with black on the 

 mantle ; sides of head, chin, upper throat, lower half of sides of neck, 

 scapulars, wings and tail glossy black ; upper tail-coverts black, mottled 

 with yellow ; inner edges of the quills and the under wing-coverts whitish 

 ash, the latter bordered with black at the edge of the wing. " Iris crimson 

 brown ; bill black, feet bluish flesh-colour " (Jackson). Total length 55 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wung 3-5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. J , 2. 00, N.E. Kenya 

 (Delamere). 



Adult female. Differs in having the entire head, as well as the upper 

 third of the neck, jet black ; upper tail-coverts entirely black. ? , 9. 12. 99, 

 Boromo (Delamere). In the type the yellow of the under parts extends 

 up the middle throat and the upper tail-coverts are partly washed with 

 yellow. " Iris, bill and feet as in the male." Wing 3'2. Mt. Elgon 

 (Jackson). 



The Yellow-bodied Black-winged Weaver ranges over 

 Equatorial Africa from Camaroons into the highlands of 

 Nandi, Man and Mount Keuia, 37° 30' E. long. 



The type of Symj)lectes croconotus was procured by Mr. Preuss 

 at Buea in the Camaroons liighlands. It is a female, in not 

 quite such full plumage as the type of the species discovered 



