PHILETiERUS LEPIDUS.— Smith. 
Aves— Plate VIII. (Male.) 
P. capite dorsoque pffidJ i coll, sup™, intenc.pd.ribuaq™ »f' 
L»mJL. S remigibus redridbusqu, .picbu. »»»>,, 
basin Jn nigris; ganis, die subins, pcot.se u.ntoque pallidb ..abcllm.s, r.tt. loug.iud.nab 
femora nigra, plumis albo-marginatis ; oculis brunneis; rostro pedibusque palhcis. 
Longitudo, 4f unc. 
Loxia socia, Latham , Paters Voy. PL 19. 
Ploceus socius, Cuv. Reg. Animal, tom. i. p. 384. 181/. 
PHILETiERUS LEPIDUS, Smith, Mag. of Nat. History, new series, vol. i. p. 536. 
Euplectes LEPIDUS, Swainson, Lard. Cab. Cyclopedia, vol. Menageries, page 309. 
Colour.— T he top of the head, the nape and the back drab brown ; the 
back and sides of neck, and the interscapulars umber-brown ; each ieatnei 
margined with pale Isabella colour; chin, and a stripe at the base ot tne 
bill which terminates on a line with the eye, black. The wings ant a. 
light umber-brown ; the tertiary quill feathers broadly edged and tipt wit i 
isabella colour ; the tail feathers also that colour at their extremities. j e 
sides of the head, the under part of the neck, the breast and belly, a pa e 
isabella colour; the flanks pale rusty brown; in front of each thigh a deep 
black stripe; the feathers margined with yellowish white. Bill and egs a 
pale horn coiouv, the former slightly clouded with brow. Eyes dark browu. 
„ Figure rather slender ; bill more compressed than m Euplectes ; 
FoRM , &C ; . F e a fl from th e base; commissure sinuated; legs and toes 
culmen slightly ^ iche b transverse plates, the margins of which are 
strong ; tarsi .in , fron ^ nearly of equal length ; claws pointed 
distinctly defined, oute proportion as in the typical 
and much curved, the hinder on e so lo^ l ^ ^ middle of the 
species of Euplectes; wings, w K: ” . ’ short, often scarcely discernible ; 
extremity of the tail slightly lounded 
