OTHYPHANTES BAGLAFECHT 455 



Ploceus melanotis (oon Swains.), Guer. Eev. Zool. p. 321 (1843). 



Hyphantornisgueriui, Lefr. in Ferr. and Gal. Voy. Abyss, iii. p. 229 (1845). 



Ploceus melanops, Des Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 110 (1845-50). 



Ploceus audcularis, Des Murs, t. c. Atlas, pi. 9, fig. 1. 



Ploceus melanogenis, v. Miill. Naum. pt. iv. 1851, p. 28. 



Ploceus leucopthalmus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers, p. 38 (1856) nom. mid. 



Symplectes eremobius, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. 1887, p. 321. 



Male, breeding jMmage. Forehead and crown golden yellow, of a slightly 

 deeper shade in front ; back of head and neck yellowish olive, like the 

 mantle and upper tail-coverts ; lower half of back ashy brown ; tail olive 

 brown with narrow yellower edges to the feathers ; wings blackish brown 

 with pale olive yellow edges to the feathers, confined to the ends of the 

 lesser and median coverts, and the outer margins of the greater coverts and 

 quills ; inner margin of quills and the under wing-coverts sandy buff; edge 

 of pinion bright yellow, like the entire under parts ; sides of head jet black. 

 " Iris yellowish grey ; bill black ; tarsi and feet flesh-colour." Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0-65 ; wing 3-0, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-9. g , 29. 5. 68, Senafe 

 (Blanford). 



Female, breeding plumage. Difi'ering from the last in having no yellow 

 or black on the head ; forehead and crown olive like the mantle ; sides of 

 head dusky olive. 



Moulting. Under parts white mottled with yellow. 



Winter plumage. Sexes alike. Upper parts ashy brown, with black 

 shaft stripes to the feathers of the head and mantle, broadest on the latter 

 part ; upper tail-coverts slightly shaded with olive, tail feathers more so, 

 especially on the outer webs ; wings brownish black, with broad olive yellow 

 edges to the feathers, inclining to buff on the inner secondaries ; forehead, 

 lores, cheeks and front of ear-coverts black, fading into ashy brown on the 

 remainder of the head and sides of neck ; chin, throat, breast, thighs and 

 under tail-coverts isabelliue buff. " Iris pale yellow; bill black; feet pale." 

 Wing 3-1. 2 , 5. 1. 99, Derru (Lovat). 



The Baglafecht Weaver ranges from the Upper White Nile 

 and Southern Abjssinia into Bogosland. 



Bmin procured the type of Symplectes eremobius in the 

 Upper White Nile district, where he found the species singly 

 or in pairs frequenting the high grassy plateaus. Heuglin 

 met with these Weavers as far north as Tsad-Amba, near 

 Keren, and records them as very plentiful at Meusa, Adowa, 

 Gonda, Begemeder, and in Wollo-Gallaland, inhabiting the 

 highlands between 5,000 and 12,000 feet. It was generally 



