320 TEXTOR NIGER 



Textor niger. 



Bubulornis niger, Smith, Eep. Exped. C. Afr. App. p. 52 (1836) 

 Eurrichainc. 



Textor niger, Sharps, Cat. B. M. siii. p. 509 (1890) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 465 (1896) ; Eeichen. Yog. Afr. iii. p. 5 (1904). 



? Losia panicivora, Linn. S. N. (s.) p. 173 (1758) ; (xii.) i. p. 302 (1766) 

 India. 



Textor panicivora, Bartlett, Mon. Weaver-birds, pt. ii. pis. 2, 3 (1888). 



Textor erythrorhynchus, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pi. 04 (1841) 

 Kurrichainc. 



Adult viale. General plumage glossy black ; the white basal portion of 

 the feathers often showing through, mostly so on the lower back and the 

 flanks ; primaries with some imperfect white outer edges ; under surface of 

 wings, with nearly the whole of the coverts and the terminal portion of the 

 quills black, and the centre half white. " Iris hazel ; bill red ; legs salmon 

 colour." Total length 8-7 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4-9, tail 4-1, tarsus 1-3. 

 S , 16. 7. 73. Transvaal (Buckley). 



Adult female. Differs in the dark parts being of a more slaty shade and 

 the upper throat mottled with white. Wing 4-3. 2 . Kiulo (Anchieta). 



Immature. Differs from the adult female in having some imperfect white 

 edges to the outer greater-coverts and primary-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 with some white terminal margins ; sides of head whitish in front of the 

 eyes and on the cheeks ; under parts mottled with white and slaty grey, the 

 former predominating on the throat and centre of the breast, on which 

 latter portion the broad dark bars become lanceolate. 



The Southern Buffalo-Weaver ranges from Angola into 

 Damaraland and crosses the continent into Portuguese South 

 Africa. 



The species is represented in the British Museum from 

 the following places : Gralungo, on the Beugo River (Sala), 

 Quanza River (Monteiro), Humbe (Anchieta), Damaraland 

 (Andersson), Bamangwato (Buckley), Transvaal (T. Ayres), 

 Kooroomooroui Pan (Jameson), Tati (Oates), Makalaka 

 (Bradshaw). 



Professor Bocage informs us that Anchieta found it to be 

 most abundant around Quillenques and Humbe, and known at 

 the former place as the " Quicenque-cenque," and at the latter 



