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and June, 1901, two adult males and a female, and informs us 

 that they were known to tlie natives as the " Nyas," a name 

 which they would apply also to H. cucuJlatuft, as the two species 

 meet in this country and it requires very close inspection to 

 distinguish them. 



All the specimens I have seen from Tingasi and British 

 East Africa belong to the nearly allied H. ahyssivicii.s, so I 

 doubt the present species having been procured in Central 

 Africa eastward of 30° E. long. 



The type of E. hohndorffi was discovered by Mr. Bohndorff 

 at the Stanley Falls of the Congo River, and in the British 

 Museum there are two specimens from Yambuya procured 

 there by Jameson and Cuy Burrows. That the species 

 extends southward to Lake Tanganyika and into Angola is 

 probable. Captain Storms's Tanganyika collection contained 

 among the Weavers a female which has been referred to H. 

 ahyssinicns and another specimen to H. (■ucidlatas. Henderson 

 also procured a Weaver in Angola which has been referred by 

 Hartlaub to H. textor (Gm.). 



Hyphantornis abyssinicus. 



Loxia abyssinica, Gm. S. N. i. p. 860 (1788). 



Hyphantornis abyssinicus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 453 (1890) ; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 563 (1896) ; Nehrkom, Kat. Eiers. p. 130 

 (1899) egg ; Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 259 S. Abyssinia. 



Ploceus abyssinicus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 57 (1904). 



Ploceus larvatus, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 91, pi. 32, fig. 1 (1835-40). 



Ploceus flaviviridis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers, pp. 69, 76, pi. 29 (1845). 



"Ploceus solitarius, Wiirtt." Heugl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 297 Fasokl. 



Adult male. Similar to H. cucidlatus, from which it differs only in the 

 black of the top of the head not extending on to the nape and the sides and 

 back of the neck being bright yellow. Hinder crown from above the middle 

 of the ear-coverts and the nape yellowish chestnut ; sides of neck up to the 

 black of the head yellow, of no more rufous shade than the breast. Iris 

 crimson ; bill black ; legs flesh-colour. Total length 6-9 inches, culmen 0-9, 

 wing 3-5, tail 2-0, tarsus 1-0. J , 16. 6. 80, Lado (Emin). 



