,S7<) I'liOCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxviii. 



Inown. Coininoii, frequenting the scattered Mimosa trees in flocks of 

 8 or lO individuiils." 



The specitic name of this species is usually attributed to Ku[)pell. 

 ))ut the latter states in liis first pul)lished account" that the plate in 

 Gray's Genera of Biids, on which this bird was labeled '^Textor d'me- 

 melll Horsf. ," w^as previousl}' published;'' and the name therefore 

 must be credited to Gray. The text belonging to this plate, however, 

 seems not to have appeared until 1849, and in it Gra}' cites RuppelFs 

 plate.' 



AMBLYOSPIZA UNICOLOR (Fischer and Reichenow). 



Pijrenestes unicolor Fischer and Reichenow, Ornitli. Central) )latt, 1878, p. 88 

 (Mombasa, British East Africa; and Zanzibar). 



The single specimen, an adult female, from Taveta, May 25, 1888, 

 apparently agrees with the original description. 



HYPHANTORNIS RUBIGINOSUS (Ruppell). 



i'/orv7/.s" rubiginosu>i Ruppell, Neue Wirl). Faun. Abyss., Vogel, 18o5, p. !l.'5, jtl. 

 xxxiii, fig. 1 (Temben, Abyssinia). 



One specimen, from the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, October 1, 

 1888. It is an immature male, and corresponds perfectly with Doctor 

 8harpeV description of the adult female.'' The bill is dull brown above, 

 paler below. 



We can discover no satisfactory characters to separate this species 

 generically from Jlyp/umfm-n/s. 



HYPHANTORNIS CABANISII Peters. 



Hyphantornis exthanmi Peters, Jonrn. f. Ornith., 1868, j). i;53 (Inhandiane, Por- 

 tuguese East Africa). 



Five specimens — three adult males and two females— all from Taveta. 

 The bill of the female is not black, as is that of the male, but is dull 

 brown above, dull whitish below. One of the females seems to agree 

 minutely with Doctor Sharpe's description,^ but the other difl'ers in a 

 more yellowish tone above, particularly on the head; in having a clear 

 yellow throat and breast, the latter with no satiron tinge; the lower 

 breast yellow like the throat; the abdomen laterall}^ tinged with the 

 same color; and the under tail-coverts distinctly 3 ellow. ' 'Abundant in 

 the plain, where it breeds in large colonies in the Mimosa trees, build- 

 ing a globular hanging nest with a hole in the side." 



«Syst. Uebers. Yog. Nord-Ost-Afr., 1845, p. 72, pi. xxx. 



'' " Wfihrend ich micTi mit der Herausgabe gegenwartigen Werkchens beschiiftigte, 

 hat Herr G. R. Gray eine Abbildung von diesem schonen Webervogel in dem ersten 

 Heft seiner Genera of Birds unter vorstehendem Namen [Textor dinemelli Horsf.] 

 veroffentlicht, nach einem von Major Harris vor Kurzem aus Schoa nach England 

 uberbrachten Exemplare." Ruppell, loc. cit. 



(•Genera Birds, II, 1849, p. 350. 



rfCat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 474. 



'' Idem, p. 461. 



