57. PLOcEtrs. 487 



a. (S ad. sk. Marianne Islaud, Seychelles Paris Museum [P.]. 



{Lantz). 



b, c. cS\ f/, e. 2 Marianne Island (Lantz). Shelley Coll. 

 ad. sk. 



/. Juv. sk. Seychelles, June. Tweeddale CoU. 



4. NesacantWs sakalava. 



Ploceus sakalava, Hartl. Beitr. Faun. Madag. p. 54 (18G1) ; Schl. 



P. Z. S. 1806, p. 423 ; Grand. Bev. et Maq. de Zool. 18 J?, p. 388 ; 



Hartl. P. Z. S. 1807, p. 823 ; Schl. ^- Poll. Faun. Madag., Ois. 



p. XV (1868) ; Graq, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 4-5, no. 6629 (1870) ;' Hartl. 



Vfiff. Madag. p. 201) (1877) ; Milne-Edw. ^- Oust. X<mv. Arch. 



Mus. (2) Bull. pis. 177«, 178 (188-5) ; S/ielleg, ll>ls, 1887, p. 15. 

 Ploceus sacalavus, Reichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 162, pi. 5. tig. 2 (1886). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above ashy brown 

 with a slight tinge of olive ; wings and tail brown, the feathers 

 edged with ashy brown ; head all round, throat and fore neck and 

 chest lemon-yellow ; remainder of under surface pale ashy brown, 

 ■with a little yellow on the thighs ; centre of abdomen and under 

 wing-coverts ashy isabelline : " bill pearly grey ; feet rosj' ; iris 

 brown ; bare skin round eye rosy " {A. GrandUUer). Total length 

 5'6 inches, culmen 07, wing 3-25, tail 2-05, tarsus 0"85. 



Adult female. A little smaller and has a paler plumage; the head 

 has the same coloration as the back, and on each side there are 

 two stripes of a chestnut-red, the one above, the other below tlie eye ; 

 their inferior surface is whitish. Bare skin round the eye greenish. 

 (^Grandidier.) 



Hub. S.W. Madagascar. 



a. Ad. sk. Madagascar. Sir A. Smith [C.]. (Type of species.) 



57. PLOCEUS. ^^p^ 



Ploceus, Cue. BhjM An. i. p. 363 (1817) ^ • baya. 



Foot of Ploceus bengadensis. 



' Range. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon, Indo-Chinese countries and 

 Malayan Peninsula to Java and Sumatra. 



