IIETERHYPHANTES AURICOMUS 



may be in one of the plumages of the latter : but there is no 

 evidence to support that theory, beyond their both inhabiting 

 Camaroons. 



Heterhyphantes auricomus. 



Symplectes auricomus, Siostedt, Vet. Ak. Haudl. Stockh. 1895, p. 86, 

 pi. 8 Bongc. 



Ploceus auricomus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 37 (190-i). 



" Type. Similar to H. imifjnis, but differing in the entire head and 

 neck being yellow. General plumage pale yellow, the crown and nape 

 washed with chestnut ; wings, scapulars, sides of mantle and the tail 

 black ; inner tail-feathers and greater wing-coverts margined with yellow ; 

 scapulars and lesser wing-coverts edged with yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 pale brown ; axillaries washed with yellow ; upper tail-coverts with 

 terminal yellow margins. Bill pale ; iris brown. Total length 5'6 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 3-25, tail 1-75, tarsus 0-7." 2 , H. 91i Bonge (Sjostedt). 



The Golden Black-winged Weaver inhabits Camaroons. 



The type was discovered by Mr. Sjostedt, November, 1891, 

 at Bonge. It is a female, and Mr. Sjostedt has suggested 

 the possibility of its being only an immature specimen of 

 H. insignia. 



From the pale coloured bill I have little doubt that Mr. 

 Sjostedt's bird is quite young, and Mr. Zenker, having met 

 with a second specimen, as well as the type of SymjAectes 

 dorsomactdatus, Reichenow, at Jaunde, is strongly in favour of 

 these two forms belonging to one species. I should, however, 

 hesitate to refer S. (lorsomacnlaiiis to H. iiisignli^, Sharpe, 

 although the latter form is apparently the most abundant in 

 Camaroons, having been obtained at three different places in 

 the highlands of that colony. With our present knowledge 

 of the subject I cannot do otherwise than treat these three 

 forms as distinct species. 



