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English. White-billed nut-cracker. African Ox-Bird. White-beaked 

 Alectorne. Weaver Alecto. Ox- Weaver Bird. Great black 

 Weaver. Black Weaver. 



French. Le Grand Bouvreuil noir d' Afrique. Le Gros-bec noir abec blanc. 



Alectornis a bee blanc. Bouvreuil Panicivore. Tisserin Alecto. 

 German. Alectoweber. Alectovogel. Weissschnabel-Alectovogel. 



Weissschniibelige oder Alekto-Webervogel. Der Schwarze 



Weber. 



Ahi/ssinian. (Tigrc) Wudscherek. 



Habitat. North-Eastern and East Africa, extending its range into 

 Senegambia on the West Coast. 



Localities. Kordofan, Sennaar and Abyssinia {Rilppcll) White Nile 

 [Arnaud). Samhara, Khartoom (Brehm). Bissao, Galam, Se'ne- 

 gambia {Hartlauh). Abyssinia {Harris). Anseba, Sobat, Mareb, 

 Fazoglo (Heufflin). Anseba, Waliko, Bogos (Jesse). Bogos 

 (Antonori). Bathhurst, &c., Senegambia (Bochebrune). Anseba 

 [Eslcr). N. E. Africa [Kotschij). Nubia and Casamanze 

 ( Verreaux). River Gambia (Sharpe). 



Male. Black, slightly tinged with brown ; base of featliera greyish white, purer white on 

 the scapulars, sides of chest and sides ; primaries slightly edged with white ; under 

 wing-coverts dull black ; under webs of primaries blackish-brown : iris dark brown ; 

 bill greyish white, tinged with yellow, brown at tip ; legs dark brown : length 9'7, wing 

 50, tail -l-S, tars. 1-25, culm. I'O. PL IV. fig. 1. 



Male, Nearly Adult. Similar, not so black ; base of feathers whiter ; white edges of 

 primaries more extended : bill ashy-brown, tip nearly black ; legs dark ashy-brown. 



Female. Not so black, more tinged with slaty-grey and brown ; very slight white 

 edges to primaries : bill blackish brown, palest at base ; legs dark brown. PI. IV. fig. 2. 



Young Bird. Dull chocolate brown ; base of feathers greyish white ; outer edges of 

 primaries dirty white : bill and legs ashy-brown. 



Ohser. Easily distinguished from the preceding species by the under side of the wing and 

 coverts being dull black, instead of white or greyish" white. " 



