458 OTHYPHANTES EMINI 



trace of the brown on the lower back, wliicli is a character I 

 have met with in all tlie many specimens I have seen of the 

 true 0. haglafeclit. 



Othyphantes emini. 



Sycobrotus emini, Hartl. Orn. Centralb. 1882, p. 92 ; id. J. f. 0. 1882, pi. 1, 

 figs. 1 (? ? Agarii. 



Othyphantes emini, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 511 (1896). 



Heterhyphantes emini, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 420 (1890); Peel, 

 Somaliland, p. 308 (1900) Sheik Mahomed. 



Ploceus emini, Reicheu. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 39 (1904). 



Sycobrotus zaphiroi. Grant, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. p. 22 (1902) Harar. 



Male, breeding plumage. Forehead, most of crown, a band round the 

 back of the ear-coverts, sides of upper neck, cheeks, throat and front of 

 breast clear yellow, with a slight tinge of chestnut near the forehead, 

 remainder of the head and neck and the mantle brownish black ; lower half 

 of back ashy brown ; a few of the longest tail-coverts olive yellow, tail 

 olive brown ; wings brownish black with rather dull yellow edges to the 

 feathers, confined to the ends of the lesser and median coverts and the 

 outer edges of the greater coverts and quills ; wing-lining with broadish 

 inner edges to the quills and the coverts yellowish buff ; edge of pinion 

 bright yellow ; lower half of breast, thighs and under tail-coverts buft'. 

 " Iris pale yellow; bill black; tarsi and feet pale reddish brown" (Emin). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-2, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-9. <? , Adis 

 Ababa (Welby). 



Female in breeding plumage. Differs in having the entire top and sides 

 of head black. Wing 30. 3 , 10. C. 92, Harar (Zaphiro, type of Syco- 

 brotus zaphiroiy 



Emin's Weaver ranges from the Upper White Nile into 

 Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 



In the Upper White Nile district Emin discovered the 

 type at Agaru, from whence there are specimens in the 

 British Museum showing that the mottled plumage of the 

 mantle, which is present up to April, is gradually discarded 

 during the next two months for the uniform black of the nape 

 and upper back which characterises the breeding plumage, 

 and the type of Sijcohrotus zaphiroi. 



Specimens have also been procured hy Emin at Bnguera ; 



