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by Dr. Ansorge at Masindi ; by Dr. Donaldson Smith at Fort 

 Berkeley on the Victoria Nyanza, and at Sheik Mahomed in 

 Somaliland. To the nortli-east, at Ilarar, two adult females 

 were obtained by Mr. Zaphiro, one, the type of Sycobrotus 

 zaphiroi, being shot off its nest, which contained two eggs, 

 July 10, 1892, and Capt. Welby has procured the species at 

 Adis Ababa. It has also been obtained at Harar and in Arussi 

 Gallaland by Brlanger. 



Genus XXII. NELICURVIUS. 



Eesembles Hyphantornis and Othyphantcs in general characters, and 

 especially the latter in the chin and throat being entirely yellow in both 

 sexes, which differ only in the colouring of the head being black in the 

 males, and mostly yellow with some olive in the females. It is dis- 

 tinguished from all its allies by the breast being grey and the under tail- 

 coverts chestnut. 



Type. 

 Nelicurvius, Bp. Consp. i. p. 439 (1850) N. nelicoiirvi. 



The genus is represented by a single species, which is confined to 

 the Island of Madagascar. 



Nelicurvius nelicourvi. 



Parus nelicourvi. Scop. Del. Faun, et Flor. Insub. p. 96 (1786). 

 Nelicurvius nelicourvi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 436 (1890) Madagas- 

 car ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 493 (1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 129 

 (1899) egg ; Oberholser, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 240 (1900) 

 Madagascar. 

 Ploceus nelicourvi, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 14. 

 Loxia pensilis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 860 (1788) ; 



Ploceus pensilis, Milne, Edw. and Grand. Hist. Madag. Ois. p. 440, pis. 



177a, fig. 2; 179, 180, 304, tig. 8 egg (1879); Sibree, Ibis, 1891, 



p. 441. 



Male, adult. Top and sides of head black ; upper neck, chin and throat 



bright yellow; remainder of neck and the upper parts olive green; tail 



blackish brown, with imperfect narrow olive margins to the feathers ; quills 



blackish brown, witli olive edges, broadest on the secondaries ; under surface 



