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Sulymah River. This is the only record 1 find of its 

 occurrence north of the Gold Coast. 



The types of the species are females, one in bi-eeding, or 

 summer, plumage, obtained somewhere in West Africa by 

 Wilson Saunders, and the other beginning to pass out of the 

 winter plumage, was procured for me by my late friend, John 

 Smith, of Accra, in the beginning of March, 1872. The speci- 

 mens sent to Ussher by Aubinn probably came from Deukera. 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander writes : " Not by any means a common 

 Weaver-Bird, but obtained at Pong." In Togoland specimens 

 have been collected at Bisraarkburg (Biithner) and at Sebbe 

 (Baumann). 



Falkenstein met with the species at Bonny, and Forbes 

 obtained four specimens at Shonga from November 17 to 

 December 1, which show that the species passes out of the 

 summer plumage towards the end of December, and the Accra 

 specimen indicates that the spring moult begins early in 

 March. 



The species has not been recorded from Camaroons nor 

 Gaboon, but on the Loango coast it has been procured by 

 Falkenstein and Petit, and on the Lower Congo, at Manyanga, 

 by Bohndorff. 



The type of Ploceus jMcJnjrJiijnchus is a full plumaged male 

 contained in Emin and Stuhlmann's collection from Kerevia 

 in the Ukonju country near the Albert Edward Nyanza. 

 Emin also procured a male in breeding plumage in April at 

 Nyangabo, not far from Masindi in the Upper AVhite Nile 

 district, where it has likewise been found by Dr. Ansorge. 



Genus XXI. OTHYPHANTES. 



Very similar to Hyphaiitornia in structure and also in the colouring and 

 pattern of the wings ; but differing in the adults having the entire throat 

 uniform bright yellow ; females generally with more, never with less, black 



