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BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. * 
brown, the centres of tlie feathers darker ; back and scapulars dark brown 
with broad fulvous edges ; breast and sides of neck black_, more or less 
interrupted or partially absent,, the feathers in many cases being broadly 
edged with fulvous ; remainder of lower plumage fulvous-white ; wings and 
tail dark brown edged with fulvous. 
The amount of yellow on the throat and black on the breast vary con- 
siderably, probably with age. There appears t e a Iways some black on 
the breast ; it is never quite absent. 
Bill pearly white ; iris light brown ; legs flesh-colour. 
Length 5*5 inches, tail 1'8, wing 2*75, tarsus '8, bill from gape '65. The 
female is rather smaller. 
I insert this species in my catalogue on the authority of Mr. Blanford, 
who states (Ibis, 1870, p. 469) that he procured it at Thayetmyo. It has 
not been recorded from any other part of Burmah, and I never myself met 
with it at Thayetmyo. 
Mr. Blanford procured this species also at Ava in Native Burmah, and 
it occurs in Cachar and Eastern Bengal. It appears to be spread over 
Northern and Central India as far west as Sindh. 
This species appears to be very local and rare. There is very little 
on record about it ; but its habits, however, are not likely to differ from 
those of P. bay a. The nest, according to Dr. Jerdon, is non-pensile, and 
has no tubular entrance or only a very short one. Those which he ob- 
served were built in bushes in a grassy churr overflown during the rains. 
Genus PLOCEELLA, Oates^. 
340, PLOCEELLA JAVANENSIS, 
THE GOLDEN WEAYER-BIRD. 
Loxia javanensis, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 446; Hume, S. F. vi. p. 399 (footnote). 
Fringilla philippinus (Linn.), apud Horsf. Trans. L. Soc. xiii. p. 160. Plo- 
ceus hypoxantlius {Daud.), Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 442 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 154. 
Ploceus javanensis, Bl. B. Burm. p. 91. Ploceella javanensis, Oates, S. F. 
V. p. 160 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 107 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 231. Ploceella chrysea, 
Hime, S. F. vi. p. 399 (note). 
Description. — Male in summer. Chin, throat, cheeks and ear-coverts 
black ; forehead, top of head and lower plumage bright yellow ; back and 
scapulars black, each feather broadly margined with yellow ; rump and 
* Hume's 'Nests and Eggs,' p. 443 ; S. F. x. p. 232. 
