HETERHYPHANTE3 MELANOGASTER 379 



Heterhyphantes melanogaster. 



Ploceus melanogaster, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 126, pi. 11, fig. 2, 

 2 Camaroons ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 43 (1901). 



Heterhyphantes malanogaster, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 417 (1890) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 512 (1896). 



Adult male. Forehead, crown, sides of upper neck and a fairly broad 

 band round the lower throat bright yellow, with a black spot on the nape ; 

 sides of head more chestnut-shaded yellow, with a broad black stripe 

 through the eye ; cheeks in front and below black like the chin, throat 

 and remainder of the plumage ; under wing-coverts jet black ; under 

 surface of quills slightly browner, especially along their inner webs. "Iris 

 crimson ; bill and legs black" (Alexander). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 

 0-8, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85. S , 15. 5. 91, Buea (Preuss). 



Adult female. Differs in having the hinder third of the crown black ; 

 remainder of the head, chin and throat yellow, with the lores and a band 

 through the eye black. Wing 2-6. Type, Camaroons (H. H. Johnston). 



Johnston's Yellow-beaded Black Weaver inhabits Camaroons 

 and Fernando Po. 



The species is known to me from Fernando Po by two 

 males and a female procured by Mr. Boyd Alexander at Moka, 

 on the south-eastern side of that island. The type, a female, 

 was discovered by Sir Harry Johnston in the highlands of 

 Camaroons, and the species has been obtained in that country 

 at Buea (Preuss) and Mann's Well (Kmitson). 



This Weaver has been recorded, by error, from British 

 East Africa, some 1,500 miles farther east, owing to Mr. 

 Jackson's female specimens of H. steiyhanophorus having been 

 mistaken for the present species, which they closely resemble, 

 but have a narrower yellow frontal band. 



Heterhyphantes stephanophorus. 



Heterhyphantes stephanophorus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, pp. 117, 253, pi. 6, 

 fig. 2, <? Mau; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 513 (1896). 



Ploceus stephanophorus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 43 (1904). 



Heterhyphantes melanogaster (non Shelley), -Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 612 

 Baiine, Nandi. 



