384 HETERHYPHANTES MALENSIS 



of boughs, some nine feet off the ground; they had long 

 entrance passages hanging down. The eggs have been 

 described as of a cream-colour or yellowish white, with under- 

 lyino- marks of greyish violet overlaid with clear reddish or 

 chocolate brown freckles, interspersed with blackish brown 

 dots, most numerous towards the thick end, and measuring, 

 on an average, 0'84 x O'oo. 



Specimens have been collected by Sir John Kirk at Melinda 

 and Lamu, by Mr. Jackson on Manda Island, and by 

 Erlanger at Kismaju near the mouth of the Juba River. 

 Further north, in the Lake Baringo district, the species is 

 probably replaced by an extremely nearly allied form, H. 

 malevsis, differing only in the black eye-streak in the male not 

 extending forward in front of the eye.' 



Heterhyphantes malensis. 



Ploceus melanoxanthus malensis, Neumann, Orn. Monatsb. 1904, p. 162 



Stefanie L., Rudolf L. 

 ? Heterhophantes melanoxanthus (Non. Cab.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1901, 



p. 619 Omo Pi. 

 Similar to H. melanoxanthus, from which it differs only in the black 

 eye-stripe in the full plumaged male not extending forward in front of the 

 eye. 



The Malo Black-and-yellow Weaver inhabits Western 

 G-allaland. 



The types, a male and female, were discovered early in 1901 

 by Mr. Oscar Neumann at the Barassa River in Maloland, and 

 the species is apparently known only from the country adjoining 

 the Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie. To this form should belono- 

 a hen bird obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith at the Omo 

 River, and now in the British Museum, but as the females are 

 not distinguishable from those of H. melanoxanthv^, the value 

 of the one specific character of this form is based on a single 



