otiiyphantp:s lovati -157 



lu Southern Abyssinia Lord Lovat procured three speci- 

 mens, January and March, in the winter phnnage I have 

 described, and on March 14 of the same year the full 

 plumaged bird I have made the type of 0. lovati. A little 

 further eastward Mr. Edward Degen has collected seven speci- 

 mens between Harar and Adis Ababa in January, March and 

 April, in various stages of plumage, Init all with the lower 

 back uniform ashy brown. 



Othyphantes lovati. 



Heteryphantes baglafecht, Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 132, pt. Lekamte. 



Type, adult male. Similar to the male in breeding plumage of 0. bag- 

 lafecht, but differing in having the entire lower back yellowish olive like the 

 upper tail-coverts ; hinder crown and back of neck uniform ashy brown, 

 slightly washed with olive. " Iris pale yellow ; bill black ; tarsi and feet 

 light brown." Total length 6-3 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-2, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0-95. <? , 16. 3 99, Lakamte (Lovat). 



Lovat's "Weaver inhabits Southern Abyssinia and probably 

 ranges into Somaliland. 



The species is known to me by one apparently full 

 plumaged male, the type discovered by Lord Lovat at Lekamte 

 in Southern Abyssinia. Other specimens, which may belong 

 to this species, have been collected by Lord Lovat at Derru, 

 Beroma and Jumjum, and by Mr. Pease at Harar, but as all 

 these four specimens, three males and a female, are in winter 

 plumage, they present none of the characters which distinguish 

 the type of 0. lovati from the full plumaged male of 0. bagla- 

 fecht, and the characters for distinguishing these species may 

 be confined to specimens in breeding plumage only. 



This form may be only a variety, but I think it more 

 probably represents a southern species or subspecies, for there 

 is no shirking the fact that in the type of 0. lovati there is no 



