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veat and under tail-coverts dull white, also the thigh-coverts ; the 

 middle of the abdomen and thigh-coverts tinged yellowish; edge of 

 the wing fulvous white ; bill black ; irides brown ; legs yellowish brown. 

 Length. — 55 inches, extent 8'5, wing 2'75, tail 1*75, bill at front 0* 6. 

 The Female is like the male, but wants the yellow crown and breast 

 and the chin and throat are whitish or rufous white. 



Hab. — Throughout India to Ceylon, Assam, Burmah and Nepaul* 

 Common everywhere in Siud with the two next species, as well as in 

 the Punjab, N. W. Provinces and Bengal, also Central and Southern 

 India, the Concan and Deccan, Kutch, Kattiawar, Jodhpore and N. 

 Guzerat. Breeds freely in company with nianyar and hengalensis. 

 Nest non-pensile, being attached to the upper stalks of reeds, with the 

 leaves interwoven, smaller than that of hengalensis or manyar, less large 

 in the body, and generally with a long and narrow tubular entrance. 

 The unfinished-like nests are inhabited by the males. Breeds in Sind 

 from April to June. Eggs white, 3, 4 or 5 in number. All the species 

 of this genus are taken young by natives, and taught to perch on the 

 hands and to perform various feats. 



Ploceus manyar, HorsfieM, Trans. Lin.Socy. xiii. 160 ; Jerd. B 

 /7^c^. ii. 3i8, No. 695; Sir. F. i. 208; vi. 399; Murray, Zool, ^c, 

 Sind, p. 176. — The Striated Weaver Bird. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Forehead and crown bright golden 

 yellow; lores, cheeks, chin and throat and sides of the neck blackish 

 or sooty brown ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts brown, the feathers 

 edged with fulvous white; wing-coverts, primaries, secondaries and 

 tertiaries concolorous with the back, the primaries edged yellowish, and 

 the secondaries, wing-coverts and tertiaries whitish or fulvous white • 

 tail brown, the feathers edged greenish ; breast and flanks fulvous 

 white, with mesial dark sti'eaks; abdomen and under tail-coverts white, 

 tinged fulvous ; bill black ; irides brown ; legs pale brown. 



Length. — 5"8 inches, wing 2-75, extent 9, tail 1-75, bill at front 0*56 . 

 Female and male in non-breeding plumage want the yellow head, and 

 have a pale supercilium, and the chin and throat are whitish. 



Hab. — Northern and Central India to Assam and Burmah. Occurs 

 in Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Deccan, Concan, 

 Travancore, Kutch, Kattiawar and N. Guzerat. 



Ploceus bengalensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 307; D' Aub. P. E. 393, 

 2 ; Beich. Sing. t. 33, 262; Jerd, B. Lid. ii. 349; Sir. F. vi. 399; Gray, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mas. p. 44 ; Murray, Hdhk., Zool., t}c., Sind, p. 177.— The 

 Black-throated Weaver Bird. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Forehead and crown bright golden 

 yellow; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and throat white, more or less 

 suffused with dusky, a dark brown pectoral band ; back dusky brown ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts greyer ; wings and tail dark brown, the 

 coverts and secondaries with pale margins ; body below fulvous white ; 

 flanks brownish. The female has the head dusky brown and unstreaked, 

 the feathers of the back edged with pale rufous or fulvous ; a pale 



