180 YELLOW-BACKED WHIDAH. 



the bill is deep black, except the edge and tip of 

 the under mandible, which is nearly white ; feet, 

 deep brown. 



Total length, 7f ; hill, J from the gape; wings, 

 3^ ; tail beyond, 3 T 2 S ; from the base, 4^ ; tarsus, 

 T 8 u ; middle toe and claw the same ; hind toe and 

 claw, J| ; lateral toes much shorter than the hinder, 

 and equal ; spurious quill, ^. 



CAPE, OR YELLOW-RUMPED WEAVER. 



Deep black ; rump and wing-covers, brilliant yellow. 



Loxia Capensis, Linn. Audorum. Le Pinson noire et jaune, 



Bu/bn, Pl.Enl. 101, 1. adult Grosbec tachete' du Cap de 



B. E. Euffon^ PL Enl. 659, 1. young. Cape Grosbeak, La 

 tham, &c. 



THE genus which immediately follows the "Whidah 

 Finches is that of Euplectes or the Weavers, so 

 called from the extraordinary skill with which they 

 fabricate their singular nests, which in some are 

 pendant, and in other species united together under 

 one common roof, so as to bear no small analogy to 

 a bee-hive. Unfortunately, although we have ac- 

 counts, and even specimens of many of the dwellings, 

 great uncertainty hangs over the precise species of 

 oird by which each is fabricated. 



