. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 410 PLOCEID^. 44. ICTEROPSIS. Type. Icterop.^is, Pelz. Vvrh. Gcs. Wien, xxxi. p. 149 (1881) I. Head of Icicropsis pelzelni, to show nostril. Ranye. Equatorial Africa, extending to the Victoria Nyanza, 1. Icteropsis pelzelni. Icteropsis crocata (wee Hart I.), Pelz. Verh. Ges. Wien, p. 149 (1881). Sitagra pelzelui, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 343, Taf. xiv. figs. D, 10 (1887). Ploceus pelzelni, Reichen. 0. 1887, p. 69; SJwllei/, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 35. Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow; the hind neck yell
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 410 PLOCEID^. 44. ICTEROPSIS. Type. Icterop.^is, Pelz. Vvrh. Gcs. Wien, xxxi. p. 149 (1881) I. Head of Icicropsis pelzelni, to show nostril. Ranye. Equatorial Africa, extending to the Victoria Nyanza, 1. Icteropsis pelzelni. Icteropsis crocata (wee Hart I.), Pelz. Verh. Ges. Wien, p. 149 (1881). Sitagra pelzelui, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 343, Taf. xiv. figs. D, 10 (1887). Ploceus pelzelni, Reichen. 0. 1887, p. 69; SJwllei/, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 35. Adult male. General colour above olive-yellow; the hind neck yellow, extending on to the occiput, and forming a broad collar, separating the back from the black of the head ; scapulars like the back, but slightly streaked with dusky ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish, with pale yellow- ish-white margins and tips; bastard-wing, pi'imary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, edged with olive-yellow; tail-feathers pale olive, with yellow margins: crown of head black to the centre, as weU as the lores, eyebrow, feathers round eye, sides of face, ear- coverts, cheeks, and throat; sides of neck, fore neck, and remainder of under surface of body bright yellow, including tbe under tail- coverts and under wing-coverts; quills below dusky, yellowish along the inner edge : " bill black ; feet lead-colour ; iris dusky \>To\\u" (Emin Pasha). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2-4, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-75. Adult female. Like the male, but wanting the black on the head, which is yellow on the forehead, eyebrow, sides of face, and entire under surface ; the hinder crown and nape olive like the back : "bill and feet as in the male; iris dusky umher" (Emin Pasha). Total length 4"5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-2, tail 1'5, tarsus 0-6. Young male. Like the old female, but having the head olive like the back, leaving a bright yellow eyebrow : " bill horn-colour, the mandible paler ; fe
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