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Fam. PLOCEID. 
119. Trxtor aLecto, Temm. 
Textor alecto, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 76. no. 257; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 363; Brehm, Habesch, 
p. 217. no. 89. 
a. 2. Waliko. July 19 (no. 717). 
6. 9. Waliko. July 21 (no. 1157). 
c. g. Waliko. July 23 (no. 1960). 
[Iris brown; beak light horn-colour at the tip, base thickly covered with a white 
rough coating, apparently not horn, and rather soft; legs and feet dirty grey. 
I only procured and observed this bird on the Anseba; it was not very plentiful. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford shot one without the white rough covering at the base of the beak, 
possibly a young bird. Those seen were in company with a flock of Lamprocolius 
chalybeus. Perhaps the peculiarity about the base of both mandibles may be better 
described as excrescences.— W. J.] 
120. HYPHANTORNIS ABYSSINICUS (Gm.). 
Loxia abyssinica, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 860. 
Ploceus larvatus, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 32. f.1 (6); id. Syst. Uebers. p. 76. no. 260. 
flavoviridis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. pp. 69 et 76. no. 259, t. 29 (2). 
larvatus et H. flavoviridis, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. nos. 368 et 365 ; id. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 159. 
Hyphantornis abyssinicus, Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 388. 
a. 2. Goon Goona. May 8 (no. 1795). 
&. 5. Goon Goona. May 9 (no. 802). 
c. 6. Goon Goona. May 19 (no. 1195). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
gi 5il_git 6 gi yu gl_jol 10" ee 3, 2. 
The female agrees in every respect with H. flavoviridis, which is described and figured 
by Dr. Riippell as a different species. Von Heuglin was of the same opinion, and 
maintained even in his ‘ Fauna des Rothen Meeres,’ that he met this species breeding in 
colonies, but never found amongst them a black-capped male. Now he has altered this 
opinion, and declares H. flavoviridis to be only the winter dress of H. larvatus. It must 
be remarked that the females are scarcely or not at all separable from those of H. melano- 
cephalus, Gmel. (H. teator auct.), a species which also occurs in North-east Africa. 
The H. flavoviridis of Dr. Brehm’s list (p. 217. no. 88) cannot be this species; for the 
length of the wing (p. 336) is given as only 2 inches.—0. F. 
{Iris brown. : 
I only obtained three specimens of this species. Specimens a and 6 were shot on 
two consecutive days, within a hundred yards of the same place, thus leading one to 
infer reasonably that Dr. Riippell’s H. flavoviridis and H. larvatus are one and the 
same species. At the time I procured the above two specimens I only saw one or two 
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