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(1923-1925) piectrophanes (6 sp.), Arctic Zone to Northern Europe 

 and North China, Arctic America, and east side of Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; (^^2^) Centronyx (1 sp.), Mouth of Yellowstone River. 



Family 34— PLOCEID^. (29 Genera, 252 species.) 



General Distribution. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions, 



1.2.3 — 



The Ploceidse, or Weaver-finches, are especially characteristic 

 of the Ethiopian region, where most of the genera and nearly 

 four-fifths of the species are found ; the remainder being pretty 

 equally divided between the Oriental and Australian regions. 

 Like the true finches these have never been properly studied, 

 and it is exceedingly difficult to ascertain what genera are natural 

 and how far those of Australia and Africa are distinct. The fol- 

 lowing enumeration must therefore be taken as altogether ten- 

 tative and provisional. When the genera adopted differ from 

 those of the Hand List they will be referred to by numbers. 



TextoT (5 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; C^^o - ^^^ i^st) Hy- 

 phantornis (32 sp.), Tropical and South Africa ; (^^^^ i656) gy^. 

 pledes (8 sp.). Tropical and South Africa ; Malwibus (9 sp.), West 

 Africa ; Q-^^^ ^^^^) Ploccus (6 sp.), West and East Africa, the Orien- 

 tal region (excluding Philippines); i}^^) Nelicurvius (1 sp.), 

 Madagascar ; Foudia (12 sp.), Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, 

 Tropical Africa ; (^^^ '^^) Sporopipes (2 sp.). Tropical and South 

 Africa ; (^^^^ - ^^^^) Pyromelana (14 sp.). Tropical and South 

 Africa, Abyssinia to 10,500 feet ; Philetcerus (1 sp.). South Africa ; 

 Nigrita (7 sp.), West Africa to Upper Nile ; Plocepasser (4 sp.), 

 East and South Africa ; (}^'^ - i^^*) Vidua (7 sp.). Tropical and 

 South Africa (Plate V., Vol. I., p. 264) ; (^^'^ - ^^^O Coliuspasser 

 (9 sp.). Tropical and South Africa ; Chera (1 sp.), South Africa ; 

 Spermospiza (2 sp.). West Africa ; Pyrenestes (6 sp.). Tropical and 

 South Africa ; (^^^ - ^^'^ ^^sg i692 i693 leos) Estrilda (26 sp.). Tropical 

 and South Africa, India, Burmah, and Java to Australia ; (^^^ ^^^ 



