340 FRINGILLID^E. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage, Forehead and crown bright golden 

 yellow ; lores, cheeks, chin and throat and sides of the neck blackish or sooty 

 brown ; back, rump and upper tail coverts brown, the feathers edged with 

 fulvous white ; wing coverts, primaries, secondaries and tertiaries concolorous 

 with the back, the primaries edged yellowish, and the secondaries, wing 

 coverts and tertiaries whitish or fulvous white ; tail brown, the feathers edged 

 greenish ; breast and flanks fulvous white, with mesial dark streaks ; abdomen 

 and under tail coverts white, tinged fulvous ; bill black ; irides brown ; legs 

 pale brown. 



Length. 5'8 inches ; wing 2-75 ; extent 9 ; tail 1^75 ; bill at front o - 56. 

 Females and males in non-breeding plumage want the yellow head, and have 

 a pale supercilium, and the chin and throat are whitish. 



Hab. Northern and Central India to Assam and Burmah. Occurs in Sind, 

 Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh, Bengal, Deccan, Concan, Travancore, Kutch, 

 Kattiawar and N. Guzerat. Breeding season same as the last. The nest is 

 generally suspended from the top of four or five leaves of high bulrush or 

 elephant grass, which are also incorporated into the nest. The entrance 

 tube is not as long as that of P. baya. 



876. PlOCeUS bengalensiS (Linn.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 349 ; Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 441 ; Blyih* B. Burmah p. 92 ; Hume, Sir. F. 

 viii. p. 107; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 231 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 181 ; 

 Oates, B. Burm. i. p. 361. The BLACK-THROATED WEAVER BIRD. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. Forehead and crown bright golden 

 yellow ; cheeks, ear coverts, sides of neck and throat white, more or less 

 suffused with dusky; a dark brown pectoral band ; back dusky brown; rump 

 and upper tail coverts greyer ; wings and tail dark brown, the coverts and 

 secondaries with pale margins ; body below fulvous white ; flanks brownish. 

 The female has the head dusky brown and unstreaked, the feathers of the back 

 edged with pale rufous or fulvous ; a pale yellow supercilium and a spot of 

 the same colour behind the ear coverts ; a small dark stripe at the base of the 

 bill on each side ; the throat yellowish, with a few dark spots ; bill white ; 

 irides light brown ; legs fleshy brown. 



Length. 5-5 to 6 inches ; wing 275 ; tail 1*75. 



Hal. Lower Bengal, extending into Assam and parts of Burmah. Occurs 

 also in Sind ; not known from the Punjab and N.-W. Provinces. 



877. PlOCGUS JavanensiS (Less.), Blyth, B. Burm. p. 9i.Loxia 

 Javanensis, Less., Traite d'Orn. p. 446. Fringilla phillipinus (Linn), apud. 

 Horsf. Trans. L. Soc. xiii. p. 160. Ploceus hypoxanthus (Daud.), Hume, 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 442; id., S/r. F. iii. p. 154. Ploceela Javanensis, 

 Oates, Str. F. v. p. 160 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 107 ; Oates, Sir. F. x. p. 231. 

 Ploceela chrysea, Hume, Sir. F. vi. p. 399 (footnote). The GOLDEN WEAVER 

 BIRD. 



