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and inner secondaries ; inner margins of the quills and under wing-coverts 

 buff, the latter washed with yellow, especially along the bend of the wing. 

 " Iris brown ; bill black ; feet leaden grey." Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 2-4:, tail 1-7, tarsus 0'8. j, 10. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



Adult feynale. Differs from the last only in having the forehead, front 

 of crown, sides of head and the throat yellow of the same shade as the 

 breast ; hinder crown olive yellow like the back of the neck and mantle, 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen OG, wing 22, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 5 , 

 10. 8. 85, Wadelai (Emin). 



Imviature. Similar to the adult female, but differing in the bill being 

 pale and the olive yellow of the upper parts extending forward to the 

 forehead. 



Pelzeln's Slender-billed Weaver inhabits the Equatorial 

 lake district. 



No mention has yet been made regarding its habits, which 

 probably resemble those of S. Inteola, and it is apparently 

 partial to the neighbourhood of water, as it ranges round the 

 southern and western shores of Victoria Nyanza from Kageyi 

 on Speke's Grulf, where it has been obtained by Fischer, to 

 Ntebbe ; at the latter place Mr. Jackson collected four speci- 

 mens and obtained others at Toro, and on Kama Island, where 

 it had previously been met with by Mr. Neumann. The species 

 has been procured as far west as the Albert Edward Nyanza 

 by Dr. Ansorge, during his halt at Eort George ; Emin dis- 

 covered the types at Magungo, where the Nile flows out of 

 the Albert Nyanza, and he has also collected a hne series 

 of specimens at Wadelai, which is the most northern range 

 known to me for the species. 



Sitagra monacha. 



Sitagra monacha, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 426 (1890) ; Shelley, B. 



Afr. I. No. 525 (1896j ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 129(1899) egg; 



Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901, p. 344 Niger. 

 Ploceus monachus, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 75 (1904). 

 Ploceus persunatus (,iiou Yieill.), Jard. Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 35, pi. 7. 



