382 HETERHYPHAXTES NIGRICOLLIS 



specimens have been collected at Cape Lopez, Moonda and 

 Ogowe Elvers (Du Chaillii), and the types of Hypliantoniis 

 grayl, Sympledes chri/sojohrys and Hiiphantornis flavigula all 

 came from that country. The type of Hi/jjhantornis amauro- 

 notus is one of Falkenstein's specimens from Chinchonxo. It 

 has also been recorded from Landana and Conde (Petit). 



The species was discovered by Perrein at the Congo, where 

 he procured both sexes, and Yieillot, under the impression 

 that they belonged to different species, named the male 

 MaUmhus niijricoJUs and the female Ploceus atncapilhis, and 

 again described the male under the name of Ploceus jon- 

 quillacens from an Angola specimen. In 1850 Hartlaub gave 

 the inappropriate name of Ploceus iricolor to a specimen of 

 this species, which has caused Dr. Reichenow to reject the 

 name Ploceus tricolor, Hartl., 1854, for my Cimmmopteryx 

 tricolor, as he places that species and the present one both in 

 the genus Ploceus. 



In Angola, according to Verreaus, the species is rare, but 

 it has been obtained as far south as Loando by Toulson. Up 

 the Congo it has been recorded from Yambuya (Jameson), 

 Manyaugaand Rivariva (Bohndorff). 



Towards the Equator Emiu has procured the species at 

 Bellima in the Mombuttu country, at Wadelai on the Upper 

 White Nile and at Buliobii on Victoria Nyanza. From its most 

 eastern known range there is a male obtained by Mr. Jackson 

 at Kakomega in Kavivondo, April, 1898, at an elevation of 

 5,000 feet. 



With regard to the habits of the species; it is appai'ently 

 not gregarious, but wanders in pairs or family parties through 

 the forest districts. The egg has been described by Mr. 

 Kuschel as greyish green, with small greyish violet and ashy 

 brown spots and freckles inclining to form a zone at the thick 

 end, and measures 0"85 x O'G. 



