HYPENITES. — HYPHANTORNIS. 
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Gesicht und Kehle nebst Oberbrust, Bürzel und Schwanz cochenilleroth , Unter- 
brust und Bauch schwarz, jede Feder mit zwei runden rosafarbigen Fleckchen. 
margaritata Gray, Handl. Birds II. 52. .= Estrilda margaritata. 
niveiguttata Gray, Handl. Birds II. 52. == Estrilda niveiguttata Pet. 
Verreauxi Reichenbach, Singvögel 22. = Estrilda margaritata. 
HYPENITES Gloger, Handb. Naturg. 1842. = Parus biarmicus Lin. 
HYPERGERUS atriceps Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. Taf. 54. == Crateropus atri- 
ceps Gray. 
HYPERMETRA (Lesbiinae. — u7cepp.£Tpo<; immoderate magnus) Cabanis, Mus. 
Heine. 1860. III. 80. === Hylocharis Boie. 
Synon.: Cynanthus Less. — Patagona Gray, 
gigas Cabanis, Mus. Heine. III. 81. — Hylocharis gigas Gray. 
HYPERMITRES (Elaininae. — uTUSp nimis, (UTpa mitra) Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 
1861. IX. 247. — Megarhynchus Thunb. 
Grösse und Schnabelform, ebenso der dunkle Bartstreifen an den Seiten der 
Kehle passen besser zu Myiodynastes, aber gar nicht die viel kürzeren abgerun- 
deteren Flügel. Die Gattung vermischt die Charactere von Myiodynastes und 
Scaphorhynchus. 
atrifrons Gray, Handl. Birds I. 357. = Myiodynastes atrifrons Sclat. 
chrysocephalus Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1861. IX. 246. = Megarhynchus 
chrysocephalus. 
hemichrysus Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1861. IX. 246. = Megarhynchus chry- 
socephalus. 
superciliosus Gray, Handl. Birds I. 357. = Megarhynchus chrysocephalus. 
HYPHANTES (Icterinae) Reichenbach, natürl. Syst. Taf. 73. — Cassin, Proceed, 
acad. Philadelphia 1867. 61. = Icterus Briss. 
Synon.: Yphantes Vieill. 
Abeillei Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1867. 62. = Icterus costototl 
Daud. 
baltimore Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 183. == Icterus baltimore Daud. 
Bullockii Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1867. 62. = Icterus costototl 
Daud. 
costototl Cabanis, Journ. Ornith. 1856. IV. 10. = Icterus costototl Daud. 
pyrrhopterus Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1867. 63. == Icterus pyr- 
rhopterus d'Orb. 
xanthomus Cassin, Proceed, acad. Philadelphia 1867. 63. = Icterus xanthomus 
Daud. 
HYPHANTICA (Ploceinae. — uçavxixoç textor) Cabanis, Mus. Heine. 1861. I. 
180. = Ploceus Cuv. 
Synon.: Quelea Reichb. 
aethiopica v. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfrica I. 543. = Ploceus sanguinirostris 
Gray. 
haematocephala v. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfrica I. 545. Tf. 19 a . = Ploceus 
haematocephalus Lichtst. 
sanguinirostris Cabanis, Mus. Heine. I. 180. == Ploceus sanguinirostris Gray. 
HYPHANTORNIS (Ploceinae. — uçavnqç textor, opviç avis). — Gray, Ge- 
nera Bir^ 1849. IL 369. — v. Heuglin, Ornith. NOAfrica I. 547. 
Synon.: Ploceus, Symplectes Swains. — Eupodotes Jard. — Xanthophilus , Oriolinus, 
Mormolycia, Sitagra, Anaplectus Reichb. — Sycobrotus, Hyphanturgus Cab. — Textor 
Bonap. • 
Bill as long as or shorter than the head, broad at the base, laterally com- 
pressed to the tip, with the culmen broad, smooth and rounded, advancing to a 
point on the forehead and the lateral margins slightly angulated at the base and 
straight towards the tip; the nostrils basal, oval, exposed, and pierced in the 
substance of bill. Wings reaching a little beyond the base of the tail, the first 
quill very short, the second equalling the sixth, the third, fourth and fifth of 
nearly equal length, but the fourth rather the longest. Tail rather short, even or 
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