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Heterhyphantes melanoxanthus. 



Hyphanturgus melanoxanthus, Cab. J. f. 0. 1878, pp. 205, 232 

 Mombasa. 



Heterhyphantes melanoxanthus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 416 (1890) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 5U (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 128 

 (1899) egg. 



Ploceus melanoxanthus, Eeichen. Vog. iii. p. 43 (1904). 



Adult male. Forehead and crown orange shaded yellow ; back of head, 

 hinder half of neck, back and upper tail-coverts glossy jet black ; wings 

 and tail uniform, slightly browner black; inner edges of the quills ashy ; 

 under wing- coverts buff, mottled with dusky black towards the primaries, 

 and with the bend of the wiug bright yellow ; a band from the upper 

 mandible through the eye, and the throat, black ; remainder of the plumage 

 golden yellow, of an orange shade on the sides of the head and crop, and 

 mottled with black on the flanks and thighs. "Iris crimson; bill black; 

 legs pinky flesh-colour." Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 6-5, wing 2 8, 

 tail 2-0, tarsus 0-85. <? , 12. 11. 85, Manda Isl. (.Jackson). 



Adult female. Differs in the forehead and crown being black like the 

 entire upper parts and sides of the upper half of the head, with the 

 exception of a complete broad yellow eyebrow ; lower half of the head 

 and the entire under parts golden yellow. Wing 2-7. S , Manda Isl. 

 (Jackson). 



Cabanis's Black-and-yellow Weaver ranges in Eastern 

 Africa from the Equator to 7° S. lat., eastward of 29° E. long. 



The species has been obtained from as far west as Msukali 

 in theUkonju country, to the north of Albert Edward Nyanza, 

 by Emin, who also obtained specimens from the western shores 

 of Victoria Nyanza, at Bussisi on the southern end of that 

 lake, and in the Ugogo district at Tubugwe and Mpapwa, 

 where he procured five specimens, so that these Weavers are 

 probably abundant there, although they have not been re- 

 corded from further south. 



The species was discovered by Hildebrandt at Mombasa, 

 where it has also been obtained by Fisclier, whose collections 

 further contained specimens from Arusha, Kipini, Kagehi and 

 the Wapokomo country. At Kipini, on July 17, Fischer 

 found a colony of ten nests, suspended from the extremities 



