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received a specimen procured at Kigoma. In tlie British 

 Museum the species is well repi-esented from the Upper White 

 Nile, Somaliland, Southern Abyssinia and Sboa. Emin has 

 procured specimens at Kiri and Muggi and remarks that it is 

 scarce near Lado, but extremely abundant towards Uganda. 

 He found four or five of their beautifully woven graceful nests, 

 and describes the eggs as uniform green. 



Heuglin found the species inhabiting the Gazelle River 

 and met with it as far north as Southern Sennar. He remarks 

 that the autumn moult takes place in November, when the 

 males pass out of their bright plumage into one resembling 

 that of the females and young birds. In August they suspend 

 their oval uests from the twigs of high trees ; are sliy birds 

 frequenting the tops of the forest growth in small family 

 parties, but mix with other Finches to drink on the banks 

 of tlie pools and rivers. The eggs collected by Emin are 

 described by Mr. Nehrkorn as l^lue or olive green, measuring 

 on an average 0"8 X 0'55. 



Anaplectes rabriceps. 



Ploceus rubriceps, Sunclev. (Efv. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 97 



Lijnpopo. 

 Anaplectes rubriceps, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. siii. p. 411 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 47« (1896) ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 25 (1901). 

 Malimbus rubriceps, Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 466, pi. 13, fig. 2. 

 Sharpia ayresi, Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 353, pi. 7, fig. 2 Tatiii B. 



Var. a. 

 Ploceus gurneyi, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 17, pi. 1, fig. 1 Caconda. 

 Anaplectes gurneyi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 412 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 477 (1896) ; Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 26 (1904). 

 Adult male. Head, neck and entire throat vermilion ; back uniform 

 greyish ash, usually mottled with red and black towards the neck ; tail dusky 

 brown with narrow yellow edges to the feathers ; wings blackish brown, 

 with yellow edges to the quills, greater coverts and ends of the median 

 coverts ; these edges are generally paler, often whitish on the inner quills 

 and the coverts ; inner edges of the quills and the under wing-coverts white. 



