57. PL0CETJ8. 489 



Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 463 ; Hume, JVests S,- Eggs Ind. B. p. 436 

 (1873) ; Adam, Sir. F. 1873, p. 387 ; Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 481 ; 

 Hall, t. c. p. 420 ; Butler ^- Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 49-5 ; Butler, 

 Str. F. 1876, p. 39; Fairb. t. e. p. 260; Hume, Str. F. 1877, 

 p. 323 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 209 (1875) ; Scully, Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 331. 



Ploceus bengalensis (nee L.), Smidev. Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 

 p. 260 (184(>). 



Euplectes baya, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 134 (1844). 



Nelicurvius fuscicoUis, Reiclienb. Singe, p. 76, Taf. xxxiii. figs. 263- 

 205 (1861). 



Ploceus fuscicollis, BeicJien. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 156 (1886). 



Adult male in hrecdinri-plumarie. General colour above streaked, 

 the feathers being brown with blackish centres, the mantle-feathers 

 yellow, centred with black ; scapulars brown with paler edges ; 

 lower back and rump uniform brown ; upper tail-coverts yeEow ; 

 lesser wing-coverts dark brown, with paler brown edges ; median 

 and greater coverts dark brown, edged with white or huffy white 

 like the secondaries ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and primary- 

 quills dark brown, edged with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers light brown, 

 with olive-yellow margins ; crown of head uniform golden yellow ; 

 a line along the base of the forehead, lores, feathers round eye, sides 

 of face, and ear-covcrts blackish brown, the cheeks rather paler, and 

 the throat paler still, being often ashy brown ; sides of neck golden 

 yellow, streaked with dusky ; fore neck and breast uniform golden 

 yeUow ; abdomen isabelline white with a yellow tinge ; sides of 

 body and flanks very pale brown ; thighs tawny buff ; under tail- 

 coverts isabelline with a yellow tinge ; under wing-coverts and 

 axiUaries pale tawny buff; quills below dusky, ashy isabelliue along 

 the inner edge ; bill horny brown above, yeUow at base of lower 

 mandible ; feet flesh-colour : " iris dark-brown " {E. A. Butler). 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-85, tail 1-75, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Adult female. Different from the male, and wanting the yellow 

 on the head and breast. The head brown, streaked with black like 

 the hack, though without the pale whity-brown edges which are 

 visible on the mantle-feathers ; wings and tail as in the male ; lores 

 dusky, surmounted by a broad eyebrow of huffy white, which 

 widens above the ear-coverts ; feathers below the eye whitish ; ear- 

 coverts ashy brown ; sides of neck pale tawny buff ; cheeks, throat, 

 and under surface of body huffy white, purer white on the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts ; the fore neck, breast, and sides of the 

 body ochreous buff, inclining to tawny buff on the flanks, which 

 show slight signs of dark brown shaft-streaks ; on the sides of the 

 upper breast there are also a few small streaks of black ; under 

 wing-coverts light tawny buff ; quiUs dusky below, isabelline along 

 the inner web : " bill horny brown above, yellow at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; legs and feet flesh-colour; iris dark brown " (^. 

 A. Butler). Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2*85, tail 

 Iw, tarsus 0"75, 



