42 PICO-PASSERES. 



Genus SPOROPIPES. 



Cabauis, Arch, fiir Naturg. viii. p. 'A32 (1847). 



Sporopipes frontalis. 



Loxia frontalis, Daudin, Traite d'Orn. ii. p. 445 (1800). 

 Sporojii/ies frontalis (Daud.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 409 



(1890). ' 



The Rufous-necked Weaver-Einch. 



Hah. N.E. Africa and Senegambia. 



169. Natural skeleton of male : mounted. 



Presented hij }fr. J. Ahraluuns. 



Genus SITAGRA. 

 Eeichenbach, Syst, Av. taf. Ixix. %. 15 (1850). 



Sitagra capensis. 



Onolus ccqjensis, Linnaeus, Sj'st. Xut. i. p. 10:3 (17GG). 



Sitagra capensis (L.), 8harpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 430 (1890). 



The Cape Weaver-bird. 



Ilah. Western Cape Colony. 



170. Natural skeleton of male : mounted. 



Presented hy Mr. J. Ahraliams. 



Genus PLOCEUS*. 

 Cuvier, Rt'gne Auim. i. p. 363 (1817). 



Ploceus atrigula. 



Ploceus atrir/ida, Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 491 (1890). 



The Indo-Malayan Weaver-bird. 



Hid). Malayan Peninsula, tlirough the Burmese countries to 

 Eastern Bengal and Lower Himalayas. 



171. Sternum of male, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 1910. 



Presented hy Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S. 



* A skeleton of Hyphantornia rucidlata \» tigurod by Meyer ( Abbdd. Voj>-.- 

 Skel., Lief. xv. tab. cxliv. i\)T. \). 



