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procured specimens at Egga. In Camaroons Dr. Reichenow 

 found these "Weavers plentiful at Wuri along the river-bank, 

 suspending their nests from twigs or grass-stalks over- 

 hanging the water, and Mr. Sjostedt found them also in 

 abundance at Bibundi, avoiding the thick bush, and he took 

 a nest in August containing two pure white egg?. The eggs 

 measure 0'7 x 0"52. 



The species has been procured by Du Chaillu at the Camma 

 River, by Falkenstein at Chinchonxo, by Petit at Landana, and 

 by Bohndorff at Manyanga and Stanley Falls of the Congo 

 River, and I cannot trace its range any further south or east. 



Sitagra luteola. 



Fringilla luteola, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 23 (1823) Seiiegambia. 



Sitagra luteola, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 425 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 524 (1896) ; Nehrkoru, Kat. Eiers. p. 128 (1899) egg. 



Ploceus luteolus, Eeiohen. Vog. Afr. iii. 76 (1904). 



Ploceus personatus, Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. p. 117, pi. 84 (1834) Senegal. 



Fringilla (Acanthus) chrysomelas, Heugl. Syst. Uebers, p. 41 (1856, nom. 

 niul.) Kordofan, Senuar. 



Ploceus minutus, Von. Miill. Naum. 1851, pt. 4, p. 28 S. Nubia. 



Fringilla miilleri. Bald. /. c. p. 28. 



Male in full plumage. Forehead, about half of the crown, sides of head 

 and the throat 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 of the feathers olive yellow, inclining to yellowish huff at the 

 ends of the median coverts, edges of the greater coverts and inner 

 secondaries ; inner margins of the quills and the under wing-coverts buff, 

 the latter washed with yellow, especially along the bend of the wing. "Iris 

 burnt sienna ; bill black ; legs horn-colour " (Blanford). Total length 4-7 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-5, tail 1-6. tarsus 0-7. J , 23. 5. 84, Kiri 

 (Emin). 



Adult female. Differs in having no black on the plumage ; upper parts 

 mostly ashy brown, washed with yellow on the forehead, crown, back of 

 neck, rump and upper tail-coverts, and mottled with dark centres to the 

 feathers of the mantle ; eyebrows, sides of head and the throat pale yellow ; 

 breast white, mottled with yellow ; under tail-coverts pale yellow. Bill 

 blackish. 5 , 8. 5. 84, Eedjaf (Emin). 



