SIO TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER 



are margined with whitish : chin black : plumage, 

 above, drab brown : the margins of all the feathers, 

 and the whole of the under parts, pale Isabella. 

 Inhabits South Africa. Paris Mus. {Jig. 57- c) 



Form typical. Bill and legs very pale : there is a large 

 patch of black upon the throat, and a narrow line of the same 

 colour between the eye and the chin, close to the base of the 

 bill ; the patch of blackish brown is on the side of the body j 

 and the sharp white edges of the feathers which it covers, gives 

 them a scale-like appearance : the commissure is sinuated. 

 Size of a sparrow. Total length about 5 inches ; bill, gape ^ ; 

 wings 3; tail, beyond, -^g ; tarsus -f,,. 



90. EuPLECTEs flaviceps. 



Crown of the head bright yellow : sides, ears, and 

 chin, brownish black : upper plumage blackish, varied 

 with ferruginous : breast and flanks fulvous brown, 

 striped with black. 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. {fig. 51, e) 



Form typical. Total length 5 inches ; bill, gape ^1,; wings 

 2f5; tail, beyond, IJ^; tarsus y3_ ; hind toe and claw -^g. Bill 

 strong, thick. The brown of the chin extends half way down 

 the throat ; the remaining portion, the breast, and the sides of 

 the body, and also the rump, are light ferruginous, narrowly 

 striped with black: middle of the body almost white: quills 

 and tail dark brown, with pale edges : bill black : legs, pale. 

 Tertials almost as long as the quills : claws long, very slender. 



91. EuPLECTES Philippensis. 

 Fore part of the head, ears, and chin, blackish brown : 

 crown, throat, and breast, pure yellow : body, belly, 

 and margin of the wing feathers, white : nape and neck, 

 above, yellow ; the feathers brown in the middle. 



This is the Loxia Philippina of authors ; the above descrip- 

 tion being taken from its figure on PI. Enl. 135. f. 2. If this 

 is correct, the species differs both from our Ploceus personatns 

 and melanotis, by having the crown bright yellow, and the body, 

 beneath, white, not yellow. 



92. EuPLECTEs awrinotus. 

 Head, neck, and body, beneath, deep black : back 

 golden yellow : wings brown ; the covers spotted with 

 black, and tipt with white : bill black : legs pale. 



