Bp Ut ON ee ee Ni G: 
The female * wants the black about the head, otherwife like 
the male. 
{nhabits Africa. That figured in the PZ. en/, has the fore part 
of the neck red. 
Moineau du Senegal, Buf. o:f. iv. p. 484.—Pl. ent. 223. f. 1. 
HIS has the head, neck, and under parts red, inclining to 
rufous: the upper parts brown and dufky mixed, like our 
Houle Sparrow: the forehead, between the bill and eye, and 
round the throat, black: the bill is red: the legs brown. 
This inhabits Sezega/, and appears to be the laft {pecies in full 
plumage, if not of a different fex. 
IZE of a Houfe Sparrow. Bill horn-colour: the plumage 
above reddifh brown; the middle of the feathers darkeft: 
‘over each eye, and down the middle of the crown, a ftreak of 
yellow: fides of the head mottled yellow and black: rump and 
under parts yellow: down the middle of the breaft a black 
dtreak, broad, and a little divaricated on the fides: tail dufky: 
legs pale. 
In winter the yellow colour difappears, and the bird is wholly 
of a brownifh colour, like a Sparrow. 
In the poffeffion of the Dutche/s Dowager of Portland; and 1 
have likewife heard of it in another collection. ‘This bird, like 
the Weaver Oriole, vol. i. p. 435, had the difpofition to inter- 
weave filk between the wires of its cage. 
™ This appears to be Le Moineau a bec rouge du Cap de Bonne Efperance, 
Brif. orn. iii. p, 108. pl. 5. f. 4. 
Vor. II, Gc It 
193 
FemMAaLee 
PLACE. 
Descriprion. 
Piace. 
295 
WEAVER B. 
DEscriprion. 
