XANTHOPHILUS HOLOXANTHUS 479 



Hartlaub in 1860, was suggested by his finding it written by 

 Natterer on the labels of some specimens of this Weaver pro- 

 cm-ed by Bogei- on Zanzibar Island, Natterer probably believ- 

 ing them to be identical with Xantliophilm galhula, which liad 

 received the name Ploreus aureus by Des Mars, in 1845. The 

 type of Hi/phantoniis coitcolor, Heugl., is a specimen from 

 Eiippell's collection, labelled "Nubia," now in the Leyden 

 Museum, and as Dr. Finsch has kindly informed me that it 

 belongs to this species, the locality written on the label cannot 

 be correct. 



Xaathophilus holoxanthus. (PI. 42, fig. l.) 



Ploceus holoxanthus, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. 1891, p. 22 Mtoni ; 

 Eeichen. Vog. D. O. Afr. p. 181 (1894) Mtoni. 



Xanthophihis holoxanthus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 535 (1896). 



Ploceus aureoflavus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. p. 91 (1904 pt.). 



Adult male. Similar to X. aaixoflaviis, but differing in the slightly 

 smaller bill and in the head being strongly washed with chestnut on the 

 forehead and crown. "Iris dark brown; bill black; feet pale." Total 

 length 5 inches, culuieu 065, wing 2'6, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-85. Mtoni 

 (Bohndorff). 



Adult female. Forehead, crown and back of neck yellowish brown ; 

 back pale brown with dark centres to the feathers of the mantle ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail yellowish brown, the feathers of the latter with yellow 

 edges ; wings blackish brown with pale yellowish edges to the feathers and 

 the least coverts yellowish brown ; quills with broad bright pale yellow inner 

 edges ; under wing-coverts buff, slightly washed with yellow ; a yellowish 

 white eyebrow ; underparts white washed with pale yellow on the crop, 

 cheeks and sides of neck ; shaded with olive on the ear-coverts and with 

 isabelline on the flanks and under tail-coverts. Upper mandible dark 

 brown, lower one flesh-colour. Wing 2-35. Mtoni (Bohndorff). 



Bohndoi'ff's Golden Weaver inhabits the Zanzibar Coast. 



Mr. Bohndorff discovered the type of the species at Mtoni, 

 on the Kingani River, in March, 1890, when he procured 

 several other specimens, two males and two females of which 

 are now in the British Museum, but I am not aware of its 

 having been since met with. 



