XANTHOPHILUS CASTANOPS 471 



Dr. Rendall preserved only one adult male, shot March 5, 

 and also observed the species in June ; at whicli of these dates 

 he 23rocured the eggs is not mentioned, nor whether they all 

 came out of one colony of nests, and as some are compared to 

 those of the Redstart, and others to the eggs of the Bulbul, 

 one is led to suppose that they vary considerably in size, but 

 no measurements are given ; a pity, as the eggs of the species 

 have not elsewhere been recorded. 



At Quilimane Dr. Stiihlmann found it known as the 

 " Muganu." 



Xanthophilus castanops. 



Ploceus castanops, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 35 Wadelai ; Eeichen. Yog. 

 Afr. iii. p. 96 (1904). " 



Xanthophilus castanops, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 528 (1896). 



Hyphantornis castanops, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 44-3, pi. 13, tig. 1 

 head (1890). 



Adult male. Forehead, cheeks, chin and middle throat chestnut ; 

 remainder of head, front half of neck and the entire under parts bright 

 yellow ; back half of neck, back and tail olive yellow, with a bright pale 

 yellow band across the rump; wings blackish brown, with the pale outer 

 edges of the feathers olive yellow on the lesser coverts and primaries, and 

 yellower, as well as paler, on the other feathers ; under wing-coverts and 

 inner edges of the quills huffy yellow. "Iris pale yellow; bill black; feet 

 reddish." Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 2-8, tail 1-8, tarsus 

 0-95. S , 12. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



Adult female. Differs in the forehead, crown, back of neck and the back 

 being ashy brown, with large dark centres to the feathers of the mantle ; 

 sides of forehead and head uniform rufous buff; chin, front of neck and the 

 breast duller brownish buff very slightly tinted with yellow, and fading into 

 white on the centre of the abdomen. Bill black. Wing 2-5. ? , Ntebbe 

 (.Jackson). 



Immature. Differs from the adult female only in having no rufous shade 

 on the sides of the head, and in the bill being dusky horn-colour, with the 

 under mandible whitish. S , 12. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



The Nile Brown-throated Weaver inhabits the Victoria 

 Nyanza and Upper White Nile district. 



Emin, who discovered the species at Wadelai. also procuved 



