394 SITAGRA SUBPERSONATA 



Sitagra subpersonata. 



Hyphantornis subpersonata, Cab. J. f. 0. 1876, p. 92 Chinchonxo. 



Sitagra subpersonata, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 427 (1890 pt., J ). 



Ploceus subpersonatus, Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. 1886, pi. 5, tig. 4 ; id. Vog- 

 Afr. iii. p. 74 (1904). 



Hyphanturgus subpersonatus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 523 (1896). 



Adult male. Forehead, most of the crown, sides of head and the throat 

 jet black ; hinder portion of head, sides of neck, breast, thighs and under 

 tail-coverts chestnut shaded yellow ; hack olive, with a rufous yellow shade 

 towards the tail-coverts ; wings and tail brownish black, with olive edges to 

 the feathers. Bill black. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 2-7, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 0-8. 3 , 2. 83, Landana (Petit). 



The Loaugo Slender-billed Weaver inhabits the Loango 

 coast. 



The tjpe was discovered by Falkenstein at Chinchonxo. 

 In the British Museum the species is represented by a single 

 specimen, an adult male obtained by Petit at Landana. 



The other females and immature specimens which have 

 been referred to this species from Landana, and from Owara- 

 mulka in Southern Abyssinia, 1 refer to Hyphaidiirgva ocularius, 

 and as a female specimeu obtained by Dr. Preuss agrees with 

 Dr. Sharpe's description, taken from the Landana specimens, 

 I do not feel justified in extending the known range of 8. sub- 

 personatus beyond the boundary of the Loango Coast. 



Sitagra pelzelni. 



Sitagra pelzelni, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. 1887, p. 343, pi. 14, ligs. 9, 10 

 Magungo; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 526 (1896). 



Icteropsis pelzelni, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 410, tig. head (1890). 



Ploceus pelzelni, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 75 (1904). 



Male in full plumage. Forehead, more than half of the crown, sides 

 of head and the throat jet black, remainder of the head and neck bright 

 canary yellow like the entire breast, thighs and under tail-coverts ; back 

 of neck, back, upper tail-coverts and tail yellowish olive; wings blackish 

 brown, with the edges to the feathers olive yellow, inclining to yellowish 

 buff at the ends of the median coverts and the edgts of the greater coveits 



