392 HYPHANTURGUS ALIENUS 



A hen bird, the type of Ploceus flavigida, was obtained at 

 the latter place, and specimens have been also collected by 

 Sintensis at Chama, by Blissett at Bula Road in Wassa, and 

 at the Volta River by Ussher. In Togoland the species has 

 been obtained by Dr. Biittner at Bismarckburg and by Mr. 

 Baiimann at Kussuntu and Agome Tongwe. In the British 

 Museum there are specimens from Abeokuta, Shonga, 

 Fernando Po, Camaroons, and one of Bmin's from Kibiro on 

 the west coast of the Albert Nyanza, which is the most eastern 

 range known for the species. It is apparently abundant 

 throughout Cainaroous and on the Island of Fernando Po. 

 In Gaboon, Du Chaillu collected specimens at Cape Lopez, 

 Rembo and at the Ogowe River, in which district it has been 

 procured by Marche at Doume, and the species has not been 

 recorded from further south. 



Hyphanturgus alienus. (Pi. 39, fig. 2.) 



Sitagra aliena, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. p. 21 (1902) Bmvcnzori. 

 Ploceus alienus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 68 (1904). 



Type, adult male. Entire head and the throat black ; back and sides 

 of neck, back, wing and tail olive yellow ; inner webs of quills blackish 

 brown, with their margins brownish buff ; under wing-coverts dull yellow, 

 with a dusky patch near the primaries ; a fairly broad chestnut margin 

 separating the black of the middle and lower throat from the deep yellow of 

 front half of the neck and middle breast ; flanks and thighs olive yellow ; 

 under tail-coverts rufous shaded yellow. Bill black ; feet pale brown. Total 

 length 5-8 inches, culmeu 0-75, wing 2-8, tail 2-2, tarsus O'S. J , 13. 2. 02, 

 Euwenzori (Jackson). 



Adult female {?) Differing from the type in the throat being deep chestnut, 

 with a large black chin-patch. Wing 2-6. 10. 2. 02, Euwenzori. 



Immature. Differing from the type in the top and sides of the head 

 being olive like the back, but mottled with a few black feathers ; under 

 parts rather paler olive, washed and slightly mottled with rufous and a few 

 black feathers on the chin ; a central patch on the breast pale yellow. 

 Bill brown, with the under mandible whitish. ? , 13. 2. 02, Euwenzori. 



