474 



isabelline white ; quills below dusk}', ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill black ; feet reddish ; iris reddish dusky " (Heuf/lin). Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3"25, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-9. 



Ad alt female. Different h-om the male. Ochreous brown, with 

 broad black centres to the feathers of the back ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform ; wing-coverts and quills dusky 

 brown, edged with pale brown or whity brown, the margins very 

 broad on the median coverts, the primaries edged with olive ; tail- 

 feathers brown with olive margins ; crown of head brown but less 

 distinctly streaked with dark brown ; a narrow eyebrow and feathers 

 round the eye yellowish buff; ear-coverts uniform pale brown; 

 throat, lower breast, abdomen, and thighs white; cheeks, fore neck, 

 and breast pale tawny brown ; sides of upper breast ashy brown 

 with blackish centres ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish ; 

 quills ashy brown below, whitish along the inner web. Total length 

 5 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3'15, tail 1"9, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Abyssinia to the neighbourhood of Kilimanjaro in East 

 Africa *. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



c. cj ad. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 



Abyssinia. 

 Abyssinia. 

 Mombasa ( Wakefield). 



Useri River. 



Dr. Riippell. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Rev. A. F. Buxton 



[Po- 

 ll. 0. V. Hunter, 



Esq. [P.]. 



53. PLOCEELLA. 



Type. 



Ploceella, Oates in Hume's Nests ^- Eggs Ind. B. 

 p. 443 (1873) P. javanensis. 



Head of Ploceella javanensis. 

 Ranrje. Java ; Burmese countries to Siam. 



1. Ploceella javanensis. 



Fiiugilla philippina, Ilorsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 160 (1820). 

 Loxia philippina, Jiajl. trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 313 (1820). 

 Loxia javanensis, Less. Traite, p. 446 (1831). 



* Three specimens from Damara-Land are apparently females or young 

 males of a Weaver-bird akin to this species, but in all probability not ideulieal 

 with C. mhiginosa. 



