480 XANTHOPHILUS BOJERI 



This bird is so very like X. aureoflarus tliat Dr. Reicheuow 

 refers it, with doubt, to that species. I have had one of 

 Bohndorff's typical specimens figured in order that it may be 

 more readily compared with that form. It appears to me 

 possible that it may be the southern representative of X. 

 anreoflavus, in which case the specimen from Mtiras 

 (Fiilleborn) should belong to this species and not to X. 

 aureojiavns. 



Xanthophilus bojei-i. 



Hyphantornis bojeri, Finsch and Hartl. Cab. Decken's Eeis. iii. p. 32 

 (1869) ; Oust. Bibl. Ecole Hautes Etudes, xxx. Art. 10, p. 11 (1886) 

 Somali; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 448, pi. 13, fig. 6, head (1890) ; 

 Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 130 (1899) egg. 



Xantbophilus bojeri, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 536 (1896). 



Ploceus bojeri, Eeichen. Vcig. Afr. iii. p. 92 (1904). 



Xantbophilus aureoiiavus (non-Smith), Eeichenb. Singv. p. 84, pi. 42, fig. 

 312 (1863) Zanzibar. 



Adult male. Similar to X. anreoflavus, from which it differs in the 

 deeper yellow of the underparts, the bright orange shade on the head and 

 neck, and in the base of the throat being margined with a shade of chestnut. 

 "Iris brown; bill black; legs dark flesh-colour." Total length .5-5 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-9, tail 2-0, tarsus 0-85. S , 7- 76, Mombasa Island 

 (Hildebrandt). 



Female. Upper parts dull greenish yellow, with brown centres to the 

 feathers of the back ; tail dull yellow, with narrow bright yellow edges to 

 the feathers ; eyebrow and underparts pale yellow, with a brown wash on 

 the sides of the head ; wings dusky brown, with greenish edges to the 

 feathers passing into pale yellow edges to the quills. " Bill horn brown, 

 with the under mandible yellowish; iris brown; feet horn brown." Wing 

 2-8. 



Boger's Golden Weaver ranges from Zanzibar into Somali- 

 land. 



The type, which is in the Vienna collection, was sent there 

 by Boger from Zanzibar in 182-i, and was first described and 

 figured b}' Keicheubach under the name of Xant^iopliilus 



