PLOCEIDJE ANAPLECTES 77 



Description. Male, not quite adult (type). " Similar to A. 

 rubriceps, but with yellow on the back, not red ; the head deep 

 scarlet, as also the throat ; a spot on the chin black, as well as the 

 base of the cheeks ; the lores, the feathers round the eyes and the 

 ear-coverts black ; " bill orange-yellow ; feet reddish ; iris brownish- 

 red (Anchieta). 



Length 6-20 ; wing 3'35 ; tail 2 00 ; tarsus 0-75 ; culmen 0-70. 

 (Cat. Brit. Mus.). 



Distribution. South-west Africa ; Caconda, ranging into the 

 Cunene Eiver valley and Ovampo Land. 



Nyasaland ; from the Tanganyika Plateau to the north-west of 

 Lake Nyasa (Shelley). 



38. Anaplectes angolensis. Sharpens Weaver Bird. 



Sharpia angolensis, Bocage, J. Lisb. 1878, p. 258; id. Orn. Angola, 

 p. 558 (1881); Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 443 (1884) 

 Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 34 (1896). 



Ploceus angolensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 18, pi. 1, fig. 2. 



Anaplectes angolensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii, p. 413 (1890). 



Description. Adult. Above chocolate-brown mottled with 

 white ; the feathers of the mantle and back white or yellowish- 

 white on the inner webs, brown on the outer ones ; scapulars 

 uniform chocolate-brown ; lower back chocolate-brown, the feathers 

 sulphur-yellow at the tips ; rump entirely sulphur-yellow ; upper 

 tail-coverts dusky-brown washed with sulphur-yellow ; wing-coverts 

 chocolate-brown, the median and greater coverts white at the ends, 

 forming a double wing-bar of which the median one is the broader ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills chocolate-brown with 

 whitey-brown edges to the latter ; tail feathers ashy-brown fringed 

 with whitey-brown, yellowish on the centre feathers ; crown of head, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts and sides of neck dark chocolate-brown ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body white with a wash of sulphur- 

 yellow, a little more distinct on the sides of body ; under wing- 

 coverts white ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 



Iris brick-red ; bill blackish ; feet brown (Anchieta). 



Length 5-40 ; wing 3-25 ; tail 1'65 ; tarsus 0*70 ; culmen 0'70. 



Distribution. Benguela, extending into Ovampo Land. 



