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TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



Inhabits Senegambia. 



Total length nearly 6 inches ; bill, from the gape i2 • from 

 the front fg; wings 2fg ; tail, beyond, 1^; base 2j^; tarsus, 

 /j ; hind toe and claw i3 ; middle ditto ^. Structure of P. 

 textor, but smaller : the black hood forms a narrow rounded 

 lappet in front of the throat, and reaches as far as the breast. 



85, Ploceus ruficeps. 



Above, olivaceous yellow ; beneath, pure yellow : 

 crown of the head, and fore part of the throat, rufous • 

 chin, ears, and frontal line, black. 



Inhabits Senegambia. 



Total length, about 5 inches; bill, gape, /g; wing 

 tail, base nearly 2 ; tarsus |; middle toe and claw^ 

 ditto ^^g; inner toe rather shortest. Structure of the last, but 

 much smaller. The yellow adjoining the black on the head is 

 very pure, and like that of the under plumage ; and there is 

 a slight tinge of rufous on the middle of the throat. 



8Q. Ploceus erythrocephalus . 



Head, neck, breast, and upper tail covers, crimson : 



hinder 



back brownish olive, striped with black : body, beneath, 

 pale olive : wing covers tipt with white. 



Inhabits the Isle Mauritius. PI. Enl. 665. } BroAvn, 

 111.28..? {fig. 51, f) 



Total length about 5 inches; bill, gape ^| ; wings 2^ ; tail, 

 beyond, fg ; ditto, base 1| ; tarsus fg ; hind toe and claw -f^ . I 

 know not whether to arrange this bird as a Ploceus or a Eu- 

 plectes : in structure it decidedly agrees the most with Ploceus^ 

 both in the bill, wings, and feet; but in habit, size, and cast 

 of colouring, it resembles the next species, which is a true Eu- 

 plectes. Bill lengthened, conic, much compressed; commissure 

 not sinuated : tail even ; the first quill short, spurious; second 



