430 HYPHANTORNIS GRANDIS 



Adult female. Similar to that of H. cucullatus, but the lower throat, 

 breast and under tail-coverts are buff. Tigre (Blanford). 



The Abyssinian Blaclc and Yellow-mantled Weaver ranges 

 over the eastern half of Northern Tropical Africa. 



This Weaver is similar in habits to H. cacullatiis and difTers 

 slightly only in the colonring of the head and neck in the full 

 plumaged males. 



In its western range it is separated from 11. rucuUatus by 

 the country between the lake district of Equatorial Africa and 

 Camaroons and from II. holindorffi by the watershed of the Nile 

 and Congo. I have seen H. abyssinicus from as far west as 

 Tingasi, and have never seen one of H. holindorffi from east of 

 30° E. long. 



The species is well represented in the British Museum by 

 full plumaged males from Lado, Kiri, Uganda, Omo River, the 

 Man Ravine, Shoa and Abyssinia. Mr. Jackson's collection 

 contains many specimens, including adult males from as far 

 west as Uganda and Butiaba on the Albert Nyanza, and Dr. 

 Ansorge has obtained the species at Fort George on the Albert 

 Edward Nyanza. I have no doubt but that all the other 

 specimens of this group, procured in Central Equatorial Africa, 

 by Emin Pasha, Dr. Ansorge and Mr. Oscar Neumann, belong 

 to this species and not to H. hohndorffi, as Dr. Reichenow has 

 already remarked. 



The egg has been described by Heuglin as pale greenish 

 blue, with a few violet brown spots most numerous at the 

 thicker end, and measures 9"8 X 6'2. 



Hyhpantornis grandis. 



Hypbantornis grandis, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. .351 (18i9) St. Thomas Isl. ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 450 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 559 

 (1896) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1901, p. 80 St. Thomas Isl. 



Ploceus grandis, Reichen. Yog. .Afr. iii. p. 66 (1901). 



