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with rusty white. Length 4% inches. Inhabits the country 
beyond Kurrichaine. 
This may belong to the Genus Euplectes. On examining the first 
specimen obtained I was disposed to regard it as the Euplectes Taha, 
in its winter plumage, which impression was subsequently removed 
on comparing the two birds and hearing the statements of the natives 
regarding their nests. The Euplectes Taha builds amongst reeds, the 
Ploceus dubius upon trees. 
Sub-genus PLocEPASSER.* 
Bill conical, pointed; culmen arched and entering between 
feathers of forehead ; edges of upper mandible slightly waved ; 
nostrils basal, rounded, and open; rictus slightly bristled ; 
wings rather long, third and fourth quills equal ; tail slightly 
rounded ; tarsi moderate, outer and inner toes of equal length ; 
claws slightly curved and rather blunt. 
Plocepasser Mahali. Upper part of head, and a longitudinal 
stripe on each side of neck, black-brown ; eyebrows white ; 
sides of head brown; sides of neck, interscapulars, and back, 
light brown ; rump, upper and under tail coverts, chin, and 
throat, pure white; breast and belly dull white, faintly 
clouded with brown; wing coverts and scapulars dark brown, 
the former tipt with white so as to form two oblique lines of 
that colour on the wings; tail black-brown tipt with white. 
Length 64 inches. Inhabits the country between the Orange 
River and the Tropic. 
Genus Lox1a. Auct. 
Lovia Lathamii. Above brown, the interscapulars and wing 
coverts edged and tipt with pale rufous or rusty white; chin, 
middle of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, white ; breast and 
sides of belly rusty white, the latterand sides of breast faintly 
clouded with brown. Length 4 inches. Inhabits the country 
near to and beyond Kurrichaine. 
T have not ventured to assign this species to a Sub-genus, as the 
different forms cannot here be ascertained. 
Sub-family Acrnainz. Sw. 
Genus BuBALoRNIS. 
Bill elongated, pointed, slightly compressed towards the point ; 
culmen arched and entering between the feathers of forehead ; 
nostrils basal subcylindrical and open ; rictus slightly bristled ; 
wings rounded, third fourth and fifth quills equal; tail 
moderate, rounded ; tarsi and acrotarsia divided, the divisions 
of latter in part obsolete ; outer and inner toes equal; claws 
short, slightly curved, and blunt. 
* The Ploceus superciliosus, of Ruppel, may perhaps belong to this group. 
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