Textor dinemelli, Shelley, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 307. 

 Textor dinemelU, Bolim, Journ. fur Ornitli. 1883, p. 196. 

 Texior dinemelU, Schalow, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1883, p. 361. 

 Textor dienemelli, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. di Geneva, 1884, p. 194. 

 Textor dinemelU, Fischer, Zeitsch. fiir Gesam. Ornith. 1884, ]). 333. 

 Textor dinemelU, Fischer, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1885, p. 132. 

 Limoneres dinemelU, Reichenow, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1885, p. 372. 

 Textor dinemelU, Shelley, Ibis, 1885, pp. 390, 392, 409. 

 Textor -dinemelU, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 44. 



Figures, Riipp. Vogel Nord-Ost-Afr. pi. xxx. Gray et Mitch. 

 Gen. Birds, pi. Ixxxvii. Reich. Singvogel, pi. slv. 



English. Great White-headed Weaver. Wliite-headed Dinemellia. 

 French. Tisserin de Dinnemell. Dinemellia tete blanche. 

 German. Weisskojjfiger Wchervogel. WeissTtopfige Dinemellia. 

 Native Names. " Kiun, Tulich and Kiiingainesi." Bohm. 



Habitat. North-East and Eastern Africa. " Between about 12" n. lat. 

 and 7" s. lat., from Shoa and Somali to Mamboio." (Shelley). 



Localities. Shoa, Abyssinia (Harris). Addebarrak, North-Eastern 

 Abyssinia and White Nile {Lefebvre). Bahr-el-Abiad, Olibo and 

 Belinian (Heiigl.) Sudan {Knoblecker) . Malemboa in Ukamba 

 [Hildehrandt) . Mamboio {Kirk). Kokoma {Bohm). Jambara and 

 Ambo-Karra {Antin.) Wapokomoland, Masai, Barawa and Pare 

 {Fischer). Somali-Land {Phillips). Masai {Thomsonn). Lado 

 {Emin Beg). 



Male. Head, neck, under-parte, and speculum white ; mantle, back, scapulars, wings and 

 tail, dull chocolate brown ; primary-coverts black ; scapulars, secondaries, great-and 

 lesser wiug-coverts, broadly edged with huffish white ; shoulders, lower rump, upper- 

 and lower tail-coverts scarlet, varied in some with yellow ; thighs black ; margins and 

 tips of tail feathers, pale buff ; iris brown ; lores and skin round eye bluish-black ; 

 bill blackish brown, paler at the tip ; legs and feet blackish brown : length 74, wing 

 4-3, tail 2-9, tars. 1-1, culm. 09. 



Jfemale, Similar, but not so large as the male. 



