432 HYPHANTORNIS WEYNSI 



Hyphantornis weynsi. 



Melanopteryx weynsi, Dubois, Ora. Monatsb. 1900, p. 69 Bumha. 



Ploceus weynsi, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 56 (1901). 



Adult male. Head, neck, back, scapulars and lesser wing-coverts black, 

 in less perfect plumaged birds the rump and upper tail-coverts are mottled 

 with dull yellow ; tail yellowish dusky brown, with pale narrow inner 

 margins to most of the feathers ; remainder of wing-feathers black, with 

 yellow edges, most sharply defined on the inner secondaries and greater- 

 coverts and forming broad yellow ends to the median-coverts ; under surface 

 of quills dusky brown, with the inner edges bright yellow like the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ; breast, thighs and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow, with the sides of the breast deep chestnut. Iris red ; bill black ; 

 feet brown. Total length 6-0 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-3, tail 2-0, tarsus 

 0-8. 3, 10. 3. 01, Ntebbe (Jackson). 



Female. Upper parts olive ; wing-coverts and scapulars black, edged 

 with olive ; greater coverts with yellow ends ; tail-feathers dusky, edged 

 with olive ; throat yellowish ; chest yellow, washed with olive ; abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts white ; flanks ashy olive ; under wing-coverts yellow. 

 Bill and feet dusky. Wing 2-9. 2 , 10. 3. 01, Ntebbe (Jackson). 



Weyns's Black-headed Weaver ranges from the Upper 

 Congo into Uganda. 



The types, male and female, were discovered by Comman- 

 dant Weyns at Bumba on the Congo, in 22° 30' B. long. The 

 species was originally referred to the genus Melanopteryx, but 

 really belongs to Hyplmntornis, as I have defined it. It has 

 recently been procured by Mr. Jackson at Ntebbe in Uganda, 

 where he collected two full plumaged males and two females, 

 March 10, 1901. 



Hyphantornis rubiginosus. 



Ploceus rubiginosus, Eiipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 93, pi. 33, fig. 1 (1835-40) 



Abyssinia; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 55 (1901). 

 Cinnamopterys rubiginosa, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 473 (1890) ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 566 (1896). 

 Hyphantornis castauosoma, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1881, p. 334 Bardera. 

 Adult male. Head and upper throat jet black ; neck, back, breast, 

 thighs and under tail-coverts bright chestnut ; scapulars chestnut, with black 



