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its breeding colonies. The two species indeed sometimes breed 

 together and hang their nests from branches of the same tree ; the 

 nests of the present bird may be distinguished by their long hanging 

 entrance-necks. 



The accompanying illustration of the nests of three species of 

 Weaver Birds in the same tree is from a photograph by Mr. Francis, 

 taken near Komati Poort in the Transvaal. The larger stick-nests 

 are those of Textor niger, the Buffalo Weaver Bird ; the nests with 

 necks those of Anaplectes rubriceps ; the rounded ones those of 

 Hyphantornis spilonotus, the Spotted Weaver Bird. 



Nests of the Buffalo, the Spotted, and Red-headed Weaver Birds. 



37. Anaplectes gurneyi. 'Gurney's Weaver Bird. 



Sycobius rubriceps (nee. Sundev.), Bocagc, Jorn. Lisb. 1877, p. 275 



id. Orn. Angola, p. 334 (1881). 



Ploceus gurneyi, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 17, pi. 1, fig. 1. 

 Anaplectes gurneyi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 412 (1890) ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. i, p. 35 (1896). 



