182 CAPE, OR YELLOW-RUMPED WEAVER. 



the latter appear so much lengthened. Authors 

 mention that this species is found also on the Coro- 

 mandel coast, hut this locality wants confirmation. 



The yellow upon the hack does not spread over 

 the upper tail-covers, while that on the wings oc- 

 cupies the shoulder and the lesser covers ahove and 

 beneath ; this tint is remarkably pure and brilliant. 



Total length, 5| ; bill, from the gape, T % ; from 

 the front, the same ; wings, 3^ ; tarsus nearly 1 ; 

 tail, from the base, 2 I 7 -. 



BLACK-BELLIED WEAVER. 



Euplectes mdanogaster, SWAINS. 



Pure yellow ; back, -wings, and tail, brown ; ears, chin, throat, 

 and middle of the body beneath, velvet black. 



Black-bellied Grossbeak, Brown's Ittus. PI. 24, 2. Loxia me- 

 lanogaster, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. 395 Black-bellied Gross- 

 beak of authors. 



THE only figure which exists of this rare and highly 

 elegant species is that given in the " Illustration" 

 of Brown, where it was first described, and whose 

 imperfect account has been copied by subsequent 

 writers. We take the following description from 

 a specimen sent from Senegal, thus fixing the 

 locality of the species, and arranging it for the first 

 time in its natural genus. 



