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on that of Gujon. If these localities are correct, the specimens 

 referred to probably belong to H. melanocephalus. 



In the Niger district it lias been obtained by Forbes at 

 Abutschi and Shonga and by Mr. Hartert at Loko. 



I likewise doubt its being a native of St. Thomas Island ; 

 but Prof. Barboza du Bocage refers to this species a specimen 

 in the Lisbon Mxiseum which was nominally obtained on that 

 island in 1861 by Sig. Glomes Roberto, and apparently it is this 

 identical specimen which Sousa has referred to E. intermedins. 

 Were it indigenous to that island, one would expect it to have 

 been met with there by Mr. F. Newton or Mr. L. Fea. 



Since I wrote the above I find that Dr. Reichenow admits 

 Senegal (Bullock) and Bulama Island (F. Newton) as evidence 

 of its occurrence in the Senegambian district. It appears to 

 me more probable that there is an error in these localities 

 or in the determination of the names, than that the present 

 species should occur in the same country as its extremely near 

 ally and that neither should be known from the large tract 

 of country between Senegambia and the Niger. 



Hyphantornis melanoceplialus. 



Losia melanocephala, Liuu. S. N. (s.) p. 175 (1858) ; (xii.) i. p. 305 



(1766) Guinea. 

 Hyphantornis melanocephalus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. -157 (1890) ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 553 (1896). 

 Ploceus melanocephalus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 71 (1904). 

 Ploceus duboisi, Hartl. Bull. Mus. H. Nat. Belg. 1886, p. 144, pi. 4, fig. 1 



Tanganyika. 



Male in full plumage. Entire head and the throat black ; remainder of 

 the neck and the under parts bright canary yellow ; back yellow ; with an 

 olive shade on the mantle and upper tail-coverts ; tail olive brown, washed 

 with olive on the edges of the feathers ; wings blackish brown, with broad 

 bright yellow edges to all the feathers excepting the lesser coverts, which 

 are like the mantle ; under wing-coverts and broad inner edges to the quills 



