262 DR. O. FINSCH ON BIRDS FROM NORTH-EASTERN 
others. The remaining specimen, a male, in not quite so bright plumage, was shot in 
the same neighbourhood, on the 19th May, by a friend.— W. J.] 
121. HyPHANTORNIS GALBULA (Riipp.). 
Ploceus galbula, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 32. f. 2; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 76. no. 261; Heugl. Syst. 
Uebers. no. 867; id. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 156. 
Hyphantornis galbula, Brehm, Habesch, p. 217. no. 87; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 398. 
a. 6. Koomaylee. March 23 (no. 184). 
b. 2. Koomaylee. March 28 (no. 122). 
c. d. Undel Wells. May 28. 
d. 2. Ailet. June 29 (no. 1842). 
e. d. Bejook. July 16 (no. 1644). 
f. &. Bejook. July 16 (no. 1453). 
gs 2. 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
0 7-2" BM" 1” 63°-1” 9” 63” 92" ows Bs 
25-2 7 95 3 Me cheek eta 
The females resemble those of H. larvatus. 
Head and upper parts olive-greyish, the feathers on the hind neck and back with 
obsolete brownish shaft-stripes; rump and upper tail-coverts olive-yellow; supercilium, 
sides of the head, chin, throat, and breast pale olive-yellow; vent, sides, and under tail- 
coverts whitish; quills dark brown, margined externally with olive-yellow, on the 
inner web more broadly with pale yellow; quill-coverts brown, margined with pale 
brownish yellow ; under quill-coverts of the same colour; tail brown, with olive yellow 
margins. Maxilla pale horn-brown, like the legs; mandibula pale horn-yellow.—0. F. 
[Iris dark brown; beak black; legs and feet pinkish. 
Widely distributed from the plains to the highlands. At Koomaylee, close to camp, 
in March, they were building, but after a few days left the neighbourhood. I after- 
wards saw this species building at Bejook in July, and that in the middle of the month; 
still the nests were not finished; thus I did not obtain eggs. The nest is built of grass, 
shaped like a cricket-ball, and of about the same size, with a short spout turning down- 
wards. Seen in colonies.—W. J.] 
122. HyYPHANTORNIS LUTEOLUS (Licht.). 
Ploceus personatus, Vieill. 
Fringilla (Acanthus) chrysomelas, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 418. 
Hyphantornis chrysomelas, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1862, p. 25. 
—— personatus et H. luteolus, Hartl. W. Afr. p. 128, 
a. 3. Bejook. July 17 (no. 1750). 
b. 2. Gabena Weldt Gonfallon. August 6 (no. 977). 
The female wants the black on the face; the whole upper parts are olive-green, 
