PLOCEUS NIGERRIMUS. 

 THE SMALL BLACK WEAVER. 



PLATE I. (Figs. 1, 2). 



Le Repuhlieain a capuchon ecarlate, Temm. Cat. Cab. Ornith. p. 234, ^ 



(1807). 

 PIoccus m'gerrimus, Yieill. Nouv. Diet, xxxiv. p. 130 (1819); Yieill. 



Tabl. Encycl. Meth. ii. p. 700 (1823); GriflF. Cuv. Anim. Kingd. ii. 



p. 134 (1829); Russ, Stubenvogel, p. 304 (1879) ; Shelley,' Ibis, 



1887, p. 38. 

 Ploceus niger, Swains. Classif. Birds, p. 279 (1837); Swains. Anim. in 



Menag. p. 306 (1837). 

 Ploceus {3Manopteryx) nigerrimus, Reichn. Zool. Jalirb. Jena, i. 1886, 



p. 125. 

 Sgcohius nigerrimus, Gray et Mitcb. Gen. Birds, ii. p. 352 (1849) ; 



Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 439 (1850) ; Hartl. Journ. fur Orn. 



1854, pp. 106, 411 ; Miiller, Journ. fiir Orn. 1855, p. 461 ; Cassin, 



Proc. Acad. N. S. Pbilad. 1856 p. 318, 1859 p. 136 ; Hartl. Ornith. 



W. Afr. pp. 133, 274 (1857) ; Heine, Journ. fiir Ornith. 1860, p. 143 ; 



Reichb. Singvogel, p. 90 (1861) ; Bocage, Ornith. d' Angola, p. 333 



(1877-81). 

 Malimhis nigerrimus, Gray, Hand-List Birds, ii. p. 43 (1870); Sharpe, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, pp. 612, 615 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 60 



(1871) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 72 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68 ; 



Elliot, Ibis, 1876, pp. 458, 464 ; Sharpe et Bouv. Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, i. 1876, p. 47. 

 Hyphajitornis nigerrimus, Reichn. Journ. fiir Ornith. 1873, pp. 448, 



450 ; 1875, p. 39; 1877, p. 26 ; id. Gesellsch. 1874, p. 181, 



