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yellow; bill liver-brown. Length, 6" 10'"; wing, 3" 5"' ; 

 tail, 2" 9'". 



Bare. Dr. Smith only met with a few specimens ; and those in the 

 neighbourhood of Algoa Bay. I have not seen it. 



362. Hyphantornis Tahatali. (Smith.) Appen- 

 dix to Report of Exped, p. 5 0. 



ABOVE, golden green ; feathers on top of head, back of 

 neck, and interscapulars, dark- brown in the course of the 

 shafts; beneath bright-yellow; quills brown, edged with 

 golden-green ; tail olive-brown, edged with greenish-yellow. 

 Length, 5" 9'". 



" Found between the Orange River and the Tropic." Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. 



Mr. Gray, in his Genera of Birds, thinks this is identical with 

 H, Subaureus ; but Dr. Smith would hardly have confused the two 

 species with specimens of each before him. 



363. Hyphantornis Ocularius. (Smith.) Zooi. 



S. A., PL 30, F. 2. 



GENERAL colour, golden-yellow ; back, rump, and shoulders, 

 greenish-yellow ; chin, throat, and a transverse stripe enclos- 

 ing the eye, deep-black ; bill black. In the Female the chin 

 and throat are not black, and all the colours less vivid. 

 Length, 7"; wing, 3" 3'"; tail, 3" 1'". 



Found sparingly over South Africa, more especially in the vicinity 

 of the south-east coast. Does not congregate. Suspends a nest con- 

 structed of delicate fibres of bark, closely interwoven into the shape 

 of a retort, from the branches of trees. Eggs three, bluish- white, 

 spotted with dusky- brown. (Smith, loc. cit.) 



I have not yet obtained this species ; but a nest precisely answering 

 the above description was forwarded to me by Colonel Armstrong, of 

 Bathurst. Inhabits Natal. See " Ibis " Vol. I860, p. 213. 



364. Hyphantornis Mariquensis. (Smith.) 



Zool. S. A, PL 103. 



UPPER and lateral parts of the head, and the back and sides 

 of the neck, gamboge- yellow, faintly tinted with green, and 

 variegated with umber-brown streaks ; back and rump 

 yellow, like the head ; wings brownish, edged with yellow ; 

 breast, belly, and vent, between gamboge and lemon-yellow ; 

 bill brownish. Length, 3" 7"' ; wing, 3" I" 1 ; tail, 2" 4'". 



This species, like most of the others of the group, is gregarious, and 

 inhabits the banks of rivers to the northward of Eurrichane, especially 

 those near to the tropic of Capricorn. Dr. Smith, loc. cit. 



I have received it from Kuruman, Colesberg, and Damaraland. 



