436 HYPHANTORNIS DIMIDIATUS 



and he has since procured specimens at Butiaba on the Albert 

 Nyanza, Ntebbi in Uganda, Elgeyo, Nandi and Lake Baringo. 

 Mr. Oscar Neumann obtained several examples in Kavirondo 

 in March. Fischer's collection contained two males from 

 Arusha in March and four males and a female from Kagehi in 

 November. I have seen full plumaged males, killed in March, 

 July and November, so possibly they retain their bright 

 plumage throughout the year, and that three specimens in 

 moult procured by Mr. Jackson in January are immature birds ; 

 but as yet we have no notes from the field naturalists regarding 

 this species. The eggs, probably like those of many of the 

 allied species, vary considerably in colouring. 



Hyphantornis dimidiatus. 



Hyphantornis dimidiatus, Salvad. and Ant. Att. R. Ac. Torino, 1873, 

 p. 360 ; id. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1873, p. 483, pi. 3 Kassala ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 556 (1896). 

 Ploceus dimidiatus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 69 (1904). 

 Ploceus fischeri, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 69; id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 70 



(1904). 

 Hyphantornis fischeri, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 458 (1890) ; Nehrkorn, 



Kat. Eiers. p. 130 (1899) egg. 

 Male in full plumage. Similar to H. capitalis iu colouring, with the 

 exception of the crop and breast being more strongly shaded with chestnut. 

 It is also rather larger. " Iris brown ; bill black ; feet pale reddish brown." 

 Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-8, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-85. $ , 

 16. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



Adult female. Differs in having no black on the plumage ; forehead and 

 crown olive-shaded lirown ; back ashy brown, with broad dark centres to the 

 feathers of the mantle ; an obscure yellowish buff eyebrow ; sides of head 

 and neck, throat, front and sides of breast, thighs and under tail-coverts huffy 

 brown, fading into white towards the chin and centre of the breast. " Iris 

 pearly ; bill, upper mandible dusky brown, lower one paler ; feet pale 

 reddish brown." Wing 2-85. 2 , 14. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



Antinori's Bhick-headed Weaver ranges over the Victoria 

 Nyanza and Nile districts between 3° S. lat. and 16° N. lat. 



