PLOCEUS CAPENSIS.— Smith.* 



AvEs. — Plate LXVI.— Fig. 2.— Male. 



P. fronte, giitturc, pectorcijue aurautiis ; vcrtice, abdomineque flavis ; miclia, dorso, caudaeque tcctri- 

 cibus superioribus subsulphureis ; cervice, regione interscapular!, hunierisque viridi-flavis, brunneo- 

 umbratis ; alarum tectricibus remigibusque purpureo-brunncis, externe flavo-marginatis ; cauda 

 olivaceo-brimnca, pluniis extern^ flavo-marginatis; rostro livido-bruuneo ; oculis pallida rubris; pedi- 

 bus carneis. 



LoNGlTUDo corporis cum capite 4^ unc. ; caudas 2^ unc. 



Ploceus abyssixicus. — Cuv. Legsoii, Traite d'Ornitliologie, torn. i. p. •io-l, ] 8-30. 

 Ploceus ciPEXSis. — Smith, Proceedings of South African Institution, 1832. 



Colour. — Front, chin, throat, and breast saftVon-yellow ; top of head, sides 

 of neck, belly and under tail coverts gamboge-yellow; nape, back, and upper 

 tail coverts intermediate between lemon and honey-yellow ; back of neck, 

 interscapulars, and shoulders greenish yellow, faintly clouded with pale olive 

 brown — the middle of each feather being of the latter colour. Lesser wing 

 coverts, primary and secondary quill coverts, and the quill feathers dark 

 purplish brown, the outer vanes edged with sulphur-yellow, and the tips of 

 all, except the quill feathers, of the same colour. Tail above olive brown 

 tinted with yellow, beneath pale sulphur-yellow, the outer vanes of all the 

 feathers distinctly edged with greenish yellow. Bill livid brown. Eyes light 

 red. Feet and claws flesh-coloured. 



FoRji. — Typical. Bill long, straight, conical, and pointed ; wings when 

 folded reach to the commencement of the last half of the tail, the first quill- 

 feather rudimentary, the second, third, and fourth equal and longest, the fifth 



* This species stands labelled in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes as Ploceus Abi/sshiicus, Cuv. ; 

 and by the same name it has also been indicated by Lesson. Under that name we also should iiavo pub- 

 lished it, had not Loxia Al>t/ssinica been referred to Ploceus, when the groupe was first established, and 

 consequently from that moment constituted, according to custom, the proper Plodius ahi/ssiuicus. The 

 circumstance also of tlie species not being found in Abyssinia, likewise renders the name objectionable. 



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