from the Niger Region. 551 



This species is now received for the first time from 

 Western Africa. 



This form, I think, can only be confounded with H. vitellinus 

 and H. tceniopterus, in both of which the upper throat and cheeks 

 are black, but which have no black band across the forehead, 

 the feathers behind the base of the culmeu never being black. 



The following short key will, I think, clearly point out 

 their specific characters : — 



a. Sides of the forehead next to the uostrila black ; front half 



of the crown strongly shaded with chestnut. 



a'. Black of the throat confined to the chin and upper por- 

 tion, not extending below the jawbone ; entire ear- 

 covets black vitellinus. 



b'. Black of the throat extending below the jawbone, 

 nearly to the crop ; ear-coverts chestnvit, fading be- 

 hind into deejj yellow teeniojjterus. 



b . Sides of the forehead next to the nostrils deep golden 



yellow, like the crown; crown not shaded with chest- 

 nut ; black of the throat extending nearly to the crop ; 

 ear-coverts black, edged behind with yellow atroffiilaris. 



58. Hyphantornis superciliosus. 



Hyphantornis sitperciHosiis, Shelley, Ibis, 1873, p. 140. 



a. ? ?, Shonga, 17th November: soft parts as in male. 

 b. ^, 18th November: iris brown; upper mandible dark 

 horny black, lower one pale bluish grey ; legs dirty flesh- 

 colour, c. ^ , Shonga, 29th November : iris olive-brown ; 

 upper mandible horn-colour, lower one pale flesh-colour ; feet 

 dirty flesh-colour, d. ^, Shonga, 1st December. 



b has the entire crown and lower throat yellow, and the 

 breast mottled with that colour ; a has only a slight mottling 

 of yellow on the lower throat and breast ; c and d are entirely 

 without yellow. From this it would appear that the present 

 species moults out of the breeding-plumage in November. 



59. Hyphantornis aurantius. 



Malimbe orang^, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 73_, pi. 44. 

 Ploceus aurantius, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. 1819, p. 130. 

 Hyphantornis aurantius, Hartl. Orn. W.Afr. p. 121. 

 a. (^ , Abutschi, August: iris orange-brown; feet flesh- 

 coloiir. 



