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In spite of its rather long tail, this bird appears to me to link 

 the Whydahs and Weavers, inasmuch as, like the Weavers, the 

 male appears not only not to be polygamous, according to 

 Reichenow, but to build the nest and defend it. In colouring, 

 moreover, it is not unlike the Yellow-shouldered Weaver. 



It has been much more often imported than either of the two 

 preceding species ; nevertheless, it is not a cheap bird. 



RED-SHOULDERED WHYDAH (Urobrachya axillaris). 



Glossy black ; lesser wing-coverts bright orange-vermilion ; 

 median coverts edged with the same colour, but the inner ones 

 and inner secondaries with whity-brown ; primary-coverts cinna- 

 mon-brown at base ; under wing-coverts and axillaries also of this 

 colour; beak bluish horn colour; whitish on edges and tips of the 



