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Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. p. 318 (1881). 

 Hyphantornis olivacetis (Hahn) ; Sharpe, t. c, App. p. 318. 

 Olive-and- Yellow Weaver-bird. 



a. ^ Transvaal, December 16, 1873. Iris straw-colour. 



b. 5 Transvaal, December 16, 1873. Iris raw sienna. 1 



130. HYPHANTURGUS OCULARIUS (Smith) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 435. 



Hyphantornis ocularius (Smith) ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele 

 Land, ed. 1, App. p. 318 (1881). Smith's Weaver-bird. 

 a. $, b. $ Pinetown, near Durban, April 1873. Iris buff; bill 

 black ; legs grey. 



c. $ Pietermaritzburg, April ^°, 1873. Iris light hazel or golden. 



131. Hyphantornis velatus (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 439. 



Hyphantornis ftlanquensis (Smith) ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele 

 Land, ed. 1, App. p. 319 (1881). Meriko Weaver-bird. 

 a. (J Seruli River, October 18, 1873. ^ r i s bronze. 



132. Hyphantornis nigrifrons, Cab.; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 442. 



Black-fronted Weaver-bird. 



a. $ Inyati, October 3, 1873. Iris pale reddish hazel ; bill and legs 

 pinkish ; upper mandible tinged with dusky. This bird, and another 

 shot the same time, were in moult. The other one is much duller ; not 

 so yellow on head, rump, and tail ; throat and breast tinged with pale 

 yellow ; belly white. 



b. $ Ishokwani, near Semokwe River, October 14, 1873. Iris 

 yellowish white. 



c. ct Tati, October 21, 1874. Iris straw-colour; lower mandible 

 flesh-colour, upper one dusky ; legs slate-colour. Insects in stomach. 



133. Textor erythrorhynchus, Smith; Sharpe, t. c. p. 445. 



Red-billed Black Weaver-bird. 



a. Tati, March 25, 1874. Iris dark greyish hazel ; bill and legs 

 dusky orange. Stomach very muscular, containing seeds and insects. 

 Noisy tame bird. Shot in company with the black Long-tails [Cherd] ; 

 had been moulting, as feathers were loose. 



b. 5 Tati, October 25, 1874. Iris dark; bill dusky orange; legs 

 dusky, with an orange tinge. 



c. $ Near first Makalaka kraal, Zambesi road, June 17, 1874. 

 Iris dark hazel ; bill and legs dusky orange. Stomach containing 

 many seeds, and a few insect remains and gravel. Three nests in a 

 high tree full of these birds. 



d. qT Tati, September ^o, 1874. Iris hazel ; bill coral-red ; legs 

 salmon - colour ; claws dusky. Shot by Thomson out of a flock of 

 similar birds, and a black-winged white species. 



1 [In the first edition these two specimens were referred respectively to H yphantornis 

 Capensis and Hyphantornis olivaceus, but these are now regarded as one and the same 

 species (ranking under the genus H yphanturgus), for which the earlier name Capensis is 

 retained. — Ed.] 



