462 XANTHOPHILUS CAPENSIS 



/3. Less chestnut on the head and neck. 



c*. Front of head above the gape deep chestnut . galbula. V- 7 '-' 

 /*. Chestnut shade on head confined to the crown ; 

 nape and an ill-defined collar shaded with 



chestnut castanciccps. '^^C 



f". Upper parts yellower; quite half of wings clear 

 yellow. 

 g^. Bill slightly stouter ; top of head clearer yellow . aurcoflavus. '"' 'V ^ 

 h^. Bill slightly more compressed ; an indistinct 

 chestnut shaded band across the crop. 

 r/*. Forehead and front of crown of a more chestnut 



shade holoxanthus. ^- y ^ 



/i*. Head shaded with reddish orange hojcri. t/ ,r ^ 



rfi. Larger; wing 3-2 to 3-6 inches. 



cj^. Yellower; quite half of wing clear yellow . . . . suhaurcus. '^ ^ ?.. 

 h". Less yellow ; less than half of wings yellow . . . xanthops. < ^ -j 



Xanthophilus capensis. 



Oriolus capensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 163 (1766) Cape of Good Hope. 



Xanthophilus capensis, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 530 (1896). 



Ploceus capensis. Smith, 111. Z. S. Afr. Av. pi. 66, fig. 2 (1841) ; Eeichen. 

 Vog. Afr. iii. p. 86 (1904). 



Sitagra capensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 430 Cape Col. ; Nehrkorn, 

 Kat. Eiers. p. 129 (1899) cgcj ; Harris, Essays and Photographs, p. 

 105, pi. 25 (1901) nest. 



Ploceus aurifrons, Temni. PI. Col. iii. pis. 175, 176 (1823). 



Ploceus icterocephalus. Swains. Class. B. i. p. 189 (1837). 



"Fringilla chrysopis, Licht." Eeichen. Z. Jahrb. 1886, p. 116. 



Adult male. Upper parts olive yellow, passing into golden yellow on the 

 crown and forehead ; feathers of the mantle with obscurely marked dusky 

 centres inclining to shaft-stripes ; wings blackish brown, with broad olive 

 yellow edges to the lesser coverts ; the ends of the median coverts and the 

 edges of the greater coverts and quills of a paler and yellower shade than 

 the back; inner edges of quills and the under wing-coverts yellowish ash, 

 with the edge of the pinion buff; remainder of the plumage golden yellow, 

 with a dusky olive tinge on the sides of the head, and down the centre of 

 the throat ; sides of the crop and the flanks slightly shaded with olive. 

 " Iris light red ; bill black ; tarsi and feet flesh- colour " (Stark). Total length 

 6-1 inches, culmen 09, wing 355, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-0. <? , 4. 9. 65, Cape 

 Town (Audersson). 



Adult female. Differs in having the upper half of the head, back of neck 

 and the back ashy brown, with a faint olive yellow shade ; wings and tail 



