422 HYPHANTOUNIS COLLARIS 



throughout the country. I have noticed that this AVeaver 

 builds its nest very much higher from the ground than most 

 other Weavers. At Kibwesi there was a colony breeding in a 

 tall acacia tree some 40 to 50 feet from the ground. I have 

 also seen other colonies at Witu, on the coast, which have 

 chosen the top of a tall cotton-wood tree for their nests, which 

 were placed some 80 to 90 feet above the ground." It is 

 curious that these Weavers should select for their breeding- 

 places high trees in Bast Africa and reeds in South 

 Africa. 



In Soraaliland the species is apparently confined to the 

 south-western corner, including Barawa and the Lower Juba 

 River, in which latter district it has been procured by Erlauger, 

 and by Jackson at Youte. 



Hyphantornis collaris. 



Ploceus collaris, Vieill. N. Diet, xxxiv. p. 129 (1819) Congo, Angola; 



Eeichen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 61 (1904). 

 Hyphantornis collaris, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. siii. p. 455 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 560 (1896); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 130 (1899) 



egg- 



Hyphantornis cinctus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Ac. 1859, p. 133 Gaboon ; id. 

 Journ. Philad. Acad. 1862, p. 184, pi. 23, fig. 2. 



Adult male. Entire head, sides and front of the upper neck black, 

 extending into a point on the lower throat ; hind neck black, with rufous 

 terminal edges to the feathers ; mantle, scapulars, lesser and median wing- 

 coverts black, with broad bright yellow edges to the feathers, middle and 

 lower back more uniform yellow ; a few of the under tail-coverts and the 

 tail yellowish olive ; remainder of the wings brownish black, with the edges 

 of the greater coverts and inner secondaries bright yellow, and those of the 

 other quills and primary-coverts narrower and more olive ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margins of the quills pale yellow ; breast, thighs and 

 under tail-coverts golden yellow, rapidly shading into a broad rufous collar 

 which extends over the crop and sides of the middle throat and completes 

 the separation of the black of the head and throat from the remainder of the 

 plumage. "Iris red; bill black; feet flesh-colour" (Anchieta). Total 

 length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-36, tail 2-0, tarsus 1-0. 3 , 30. 10. 68, 

 Katumbella (Sala). 



Female. Similar to that of H. cucullatus. 



