dVES. 403 



Family FEINGILLID^. 



195. Hyphantornis larvata, Kiipp. 



Kiipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 91, t. xxxii. f. 1 ; Syst. TJebers. No. 260.— 



Heugl. Journ. f. Om. 1867, p. 378. 

 P. flavoviridis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 69, t. xxix. 



Iris scarlet ; beak black ; legs greyish black. 



Only met with about Dolo and Agula in Tigr^, 

 about lialf-W3,y on the road between Adigrat and 

 Antalo ; at these places it abounded. Scarcely any 

 birds had attained their fuU breeding plumage in the 

 middle of May. 



The eggs are stated by Von Heuglin to be pale bluish 

 green, with a few violet-brownish spots at the blunter 

 end. 



Ploceus flavoviridis, Riipp., is the same bird in winter 

 plumage, when the bill is horn-coloured, 



196. Hyphantornis melanotis (Gu^r.). 



Flocews melanotis, Gu&. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 321 (neb Lafresnaye). — 



Lefebvre, p. 110, Atlas, pi. ix. 

 P. Chdrini, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, ii. p. 351. — Ferr. et Gal. 



No. 110.— Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1867, p. 388. 



Iris yellowish grey ; beak black in the male, horn- 

 coloured in both sexes in non-breeding plumage, and in 

 the female always : legs flesh colour. 



Common throughout the highlands, and seen at 

 nearly 10,000 feet, though in general more common 

 at a rather lower elevation. Specimens shot at Senafd 

 at the end of May had assumed the full breeding 

 plumage. 



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