322 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 



The third, foiirth, fifth and sixth primaries are margined and 

 tipped with pale greenish yellow. The rump has an appearance 

 of being tinged with reddish brown, many of the feathers being 

 of that colour. The lower surface is of a much purer white, 

 with a cinereous tinge on the throat. The lowcr tail-coverts 

 and tail are as in Oriolus xanthonotus. Lg. 6,5, tars. 0,75, 

 wing 4, tail 2,75, bill from gape 0,85. 



Hab.: Sandakan, Northern Borneo (Tweeddale Mus.). 



PLOCEIDaE, 



Hyphantornis tetnporalis. 



Barboza du Bocage, Jörn. Sc. Math. Phys. Nat. Lisboa 

 No. XXVIII, 1880. (Decima nova lista No. 82). 



cT: Supra olivaceo -flavescens, plumis medio fiiscis, subtus 

 flavissimus; pileo aureo-flavo; loris, genis et regione parotica 

 circumscripta olivaceo - fuscis; uropygio et tectricibus caudac 

 superioribus magis flavescentibus; scapularibus, tectricibus alac 

 remigibusque secundariis fuscis, late vircscente-flavo marginatis; 

 primariis fuscis, pogonio externo stricte virescente marginatis, 

 apice obscurioribus; cauda pallide olivaceo - fusca, marginibus 

 rectricum flavidioribus; rostro elongato-conico, nigro; pedibus 

 dilute rubente-fuscis; iride flavo. 



Long. tot. 155, alae 87, caudae 53, rostri 17, tarsi 24 Mm. 



Hab.: Caconda (Angola). 



Munia melaena. 



P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880. Pt. I, 1. June, p. 66, 

 pl. VII, fig. 2. 



Niger; uropygio, candae tectricibus superioribus et rectricum 

 marginibus externis castaneis; cauda acuminata, rectricibus 

 duabus mediis quam ceterae longioribus; ventre medio rufo, 

 hypochondriis nigro variegatis, erisso nigro; alis extus et dorso 

 postico fuscescenti-nigris, subalaribus rufescentibus ; rostro crasso 

 et pedibus nigris. 



Lg. 4,3, al. 2, caud. 1,3. 



Hab.: Nova Britannia. 



FRINGILLIDAE. 



Buarremon ■melanocephalus. 



Salvin and Godman, Ibis, IV. Series, Vol. IV, No. 13, 

 Januar 1880, p. 121. 



Supra fuscus, olivaceo tinctus, pileo toto nigro; alis et 

 cauda nigricantibus, auricularibus sericeo griseo -fuscis; subtus 

 flavicans, plumis pectoris medialiter fusco striolatis, mcnto et 

 regione malari nigris; rostro nigricante, pedibus corylinis. Lg. 

 tot. 6,3, al. 2,75, caud. 2,9, rostr. a riet. 0,7, tars. 1,1. 



Observatio. Avis certe juvenis, sed ab omnibus hujus 

 generis (nisi a Bica7'remon tihudis) pileo nigro dignoscendus; a 



