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English. Chestnut-hacked Weaver-bird. Chestnut-fuscus Weaver. 

 Yelloic-dun Weaver. Chestnut Weaver-bird. Isabelline Weaver. 



French. Le Tisseiin couleur de Chdtaigne hrun. Le Tisserin bran noir. 

 Le Tisserin isabelle. 



German. Der Kastanienbraune Weber. Der Isabell- Weber. Der 

 Kastanienbraune Wehervogel. 



Ha'itat. West Africa : " from the Congo to Senegambia" (Shelley). 



Localities. Bathurst, Senegambia (Bochcbrune) ; Casamauze, Sene- 

 gambia ( Lesson) ; St. Paul's River, Sierra Leone {MacDoicell) ; 

 St. Paul's River and Robertsport, Liberia (Buftikofer) ; Ashantee 

 (Berlin JIus.); Fantee (Ussher, Blissett, Kirby, Shel'ey and Buckley); 

 River Vol ta (Ussher); Cape Coast (Higgins); Cape Coast Castle 

 (Kirby); Ahour'i (Shelley); Accra, (LTaynes); Ahokohi (Beichenoic); 

 Rio Boutry (Bel); Ornitsclii, Hiver Niger (Forbes); Gaboon (A. 

 L^acomfe) ; Congo (Ley den J/».v.). 



Ma/e. Black ; mantle and scapulars dark cinnamon-brown ; rump, basal portion of upper 

 tail-coverts, sides, abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts chestnut-brown, brightest on 

 the rump ; iris straw-yellow ; bill black ; legs and feet dark brown : length 6'1, wing 

 3i, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-9, culnien 0-75 (a). 



Young Hale changing Plnmage. Similar to female and young, but with brigliter reddish- 

 brown on sides, flanks and under tail-eoverts ; interspersed with black and chestnut all 

 over ; wings and tail black ; secondaries black with bright huffish outer margins ; bill 

 black ; feet brown ; length 6'0.5, wing 3'15, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-9, culmen 0-75 (g). 



Feinale. Crown and hind neck dark greyish-olive, streaked with dull brown ; back 

 brownish-olive, centre of each feather brownish-black edged with pale olive ; lower part 

 of back, rump and upper tail- coverts reddish-brown ; primaries dull black, edged with 

 olive-gieen; secondaries brownish-black broadly margined with yellowish-buff, like the 

 median and greater wing-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts faintly edged with greyish-olive ; 

 tail dull black faintly edged with greenish-olive ; cheeks, sides of head and neck greyish- 

 olive ; chin and throat pale yellowish-buff ; breast, sides, flanks and under tail-coverts 

 olive-brown, strongly tinged with rufous on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; centre of 

 belly bright sulphur-yellow ; axillaries and under wing-coverts brownisli-buli" ; under 

 surface of wing-feathers grey ; iris brown ; bill dark brown, paler on the under inaudible : 

 feet brown : length 5-85, wdng 3-05, tail 2-2, tarsus 8, culmen 0-7-'i {j). 



Young Female. Crown olive-brown, not tinged with grey, and only faintly streaked with 

 brown ; brown centres of feathers of mantle and scapulars not so large or decided as in 



