446 BRACHYCOPE ANOMALA 



Hyphantornis lineolatus, 



Hyphantornis lineolatus, Sharps, M. S. in Brit. Mus. Somali. 



Type. Similar to H. vitcllinus, but differing in the upper parts, from 

 the nape to the end of the tail, being greener, and in having the mantle 

 strongly streaked with black shaft-stripes to the feathers. " Iris red." 

 Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 28, tail 2-0, tarsus O'S. 3 , 

 28. 9. 94, Sheik Hassein (F. Gillett). 



Male in iinperfcct plumage. Differs only in the olive extending forward 

 through the middle of the crown and expanding over the whole forehead ; 

 sides of head, chin and upper throat mottled with black. $ , juv. 13. 12. 98, 

 Hargeisa (Lovat). 



Female. Very like that of H. vitellinus, but with a slightly more olive 

 shade on the rump. Somaliland (J. J. Harrison). 



The Striped Vitelline Weaver inhabits Somaliland. 



I have described the only three specimens I have seen of 

 this species. It probably entirely replaces H. vitellinus in 

 Somaliland, so the specimen obtained by Dr. Donaldson Smith 

 in the Darro Mountain should belonof to this form. 



Genus XIX. BRACHYCOPE. 



Most nearly allied in general characters to Hyphantornis ; but differs 

 from all the other Plocelnce in the comparatively short first primary, which 

 does not quite reach to the end of the wing-coverts, and in the tail being 

 very short, not more than half the length of the wing. Bill rather stout. 



Type. 



Brachycope, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1900, p. 249 B. anomala. 



The genus is represented by a single species from the Upper Congo 

 district. 



Brachycope anomala. 



Ploceus anomalus, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 214, 307 Stanley Falls. 

 Brachycope anomala, Reiehen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 97 (1904). 

 Male in full plumage. Upper parts brown, shading into yellow on the 

 front half of the crown, brightest on the forehead, where there are a few 



