HETERHYPHANTES NIGRICOLLIS 381 



Heterhyphantes nigricollis. 



Malimbus nigricollis, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 74, pi. 45 (1805), $ Congo. 

 Heterhyphantes nigricollis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 415 (1890) ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 515 (1896). 

 Ploceus nigricollis, Eeichen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 44 (1904). 

 Ploceus atricapillus, Vieill. N. Diet, xxxiv. p. 128 (1819), 3 Congo. 

 Ploceus jonquilaceus, Vieill. t. c. p. 130, 5 . 

 Ploceus flavocapillus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 698 (1822). 

 Ploceus atrogularis, Voigt. Cuv. Thierr. p. 564 (1831). 

 Ploceus tricolor, Hartl. Verz. Hamb. 1850, pp. 28, 46. 

 Hyphantornis grayi, J. and E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 514. 

 Symplectes chrysophrys, J. and E. Verr. Eev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, p. lOG 



Gaboon. 

 Hyphantornis flavigula, Cass. Pr. Philad. Ac. 1859, p. 134. 

 Hyphantornis amauronotus, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 27 Loango. 



Adult male. Head, sides of neck and the under parts golden yellow, 

 slightly shaded with chestnut on the head and crop, and with a band 

 through the eye, the chin and centre of the throat jet black ; hind neck, 

 mantle and wing-coverts deep sepia brown ; quills more dusky brown, 

 faintly edged with olive ; lower back and upper tail-coverts dusky brown, 

 washed with olive yellow ; tail dark brown, with an olive shade along the 

 edges of the feathers ; inner margins of the quills and the under wing- 

 coverts buff, mottled with black and yellow at the edge of the wing ; 

 axillaries pale yellow. "Iris straw-colour; bill black; feet dusky red." 

 Total length 6'2 inches, cuhnen 0-65, wing 29, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-75. g , 

 23. 6. 83, Belhrna (Emin). 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the colouring of the head and 

 neck ; forehead and crown black ; a complete pale yellow eyebrow separated 

 from the yellow ear-coverts and cheeks by a black band ; chin and entire 

 throat pale yellow. Wing 2'85. Yambuya (Jameson). 



Imynature. Similar to the female, from which it differs in the forehead, 

 crown and mantle being somewhat shaded with olive yellow, and the bill 

 pale, inclining to flesh-colour on the lower mandible. Landana (Petit). 



Vieillot's Black-and-yellow Weaver ranges from Camaroons 

 into Angola and Kavironda. 



In Camaroons Mr. Zenker obtained the species at Jaunde, 

 where he found it known to the natives as the " Insoma." 

 It has also been procured in the mountains by Crossley and in 

 the Efulen and Ja River districts by Mr. Bates. In Gaboon, 



