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with such localities further south in the Malay Peninsula. It 

 does not appear to ascend the hills. Its habits and notes are quite 

 similar to those of the well-known southern Indian species. — 

 W. D.] 



I have entered all our specimens as Ploceus baya, because I 

 am almost certain that the name philippinus* really applies to 

 the Indian and not to our bird. 



I must explain that exclusive of Ploceus striates, Blyth, 

 which I understand is generally accepted as identical with P. 

 manyar, Horsf., (though Horsfield's original f description omits 

 entirely the conspicuous striation on the breast which invari- 

 ably distinguishes the non-breeding plumage of striates, and 

 Horsfield, if he described the bird at all, was describing the non- 

 breeding plumage), and again excluding Ploceus bengalensis, 

 in regard to which no doubt can exist, and which is suffi- 

 ciently fixed by P. E., 393, fig. 2, and old descriptions ; and 

 again excluding the Golden Burmese Weaver Bird commonly 

 called hypoxanthus J, Daud, (a name which cannot pos- 

 sibly apply, the species thus named being totally differently 

 colored and very closely allied to the South African Crithagra 

 sulphurata,) and to which the description of Lesson's Java- 

 nensis, § the name most recently assigned to this species 

 applies extremely ill, (seeing that when the bird becomes golden 

 yellow, its bill is black and not yellowish) I say, excluding 

 these three species, which, whatever their right names, are clear- 

 ly defined and well-known, there are three species of Ploceus that 

 occur within our limits ; first the smaller race, which I believe 

 to be the true philippinus which occurs over the greater part 

 of the Continent of India ; second, the larger race which occurs 

 in Nepal Sikim, Eastern Bengal, throughout Burma, and the 

 Malay Peninsula, and which is apparently bay a of Blyth ; and 



* Loxis philippina, Lin. S. N. I. 305, 1766, ex. Briss. — philippinensis. Briss. Orn. 

 III., 232. pi. XII. f. 1 male 1760.— Gross bee des Philippines. D'Aub. P. E., 135 f. 2— 

 maculaca, P. L. S Miill. Suppl. 150. 1766. ex- P. E. 



f " Fringilla manyar, Horsf. Trans. L- S- XIII. 160. 1821- Above dusky 

 " feathers bordered with ferruginous, beneath white tinged with yellow ; the throat 

 " and breast, saturatiore . superciliary line, yellowish." 



T Loxia hypoxantha, Daud. Man. d'Orn. II., 429, 1800,— Sparrman. Mus : Carls 

 fasc. III. 71. 



" Scarcely larger than the Serin, properly so called, beak, conic, oval, and pale ; iris 

 " of a reddish color. Plumage yellowish; forehead and eyebrows yellow; all the 

 "coverts and the quills black, bordered with yellow; feet pale. 



" This species inhabits Sumatra and frequents the rice fields. It is very close to 

 " the following species " (which is Crithagra sulphurata, Lin. of South Africa.) 



§ " Loxiajavanensis, Lesson. Traite d'Orn, I., 446, 1831. " 26. Gros bee jaune; Loxia 

 javanensis. Golden yellow, mantle brown ; wings grey and brown ; face and 

 throat reddish black ; bill and tarsi yellowish. From Java, Leschenault." 



N.B. — Though I have called this species a Ploceus, I quite agree with Mr. Oates that 

 it is a perfectly distincc form, deserving generic separation. The eggs alone suffice 

 to show that it is not a true Ploceus. My own belief is that javanensis is distinct, and 

 that the Burmese bird requires a name. In our museum it stand as chryseus. 



