PLOCEUS SUBAUREUS.— Smith 
Aves. Plate XXX. (Fig. L, Male.) 
P. fronte, vertice, capitis lateribus, guttureque vitellinis ; nucha, cervice, dorso, alarumque tectricibus 
mmoribus vmdi-flavis ; caudse tectricibus, pectore, abdomineque luteis ; remigibus brunneo-rubris, 
versus basin flavo-marginatis ; rectrieibus brunneo-flavis, flavo-marginatis. Rostro livido-brunneo ; 
oculis, pedibus, unguibusque carneis. 
Longitcdo corporis cum capite 4 unc. ; caud® 2 unc. 9 lin. 
Ploceus S UBAu BE us.-Smith. Proceedings of South African Institution, April, 1832. 
Colour. The front, crown, sides of the head, and the throat, bright saf- 
tr/coverts T b “r ”1 Sides ° f the neck ' back and lesser 
ing-coverts intermediate between sulphur and gamboge-yellow • upper tail 
coverts breast, belly, and under tail coverts a cfear and 
J l 8 1 C U( J me '> Tellow ) 5 P«mary quill coverts intermediate between sulphur and 
king s yellow, their tips between oil and honey-yellow ; secondary quill coverts 
similar in colour to the tips of the primaries and all margined with king’s yellow 
Quill feathers light brownish red, the outer vanes narrowly edged with kind’s 
yellow, the inner vanes towards their base, broadly, with primrose-yellow, which 
is also the colour of the inner surface of the shoulders. Tail intermediate 
between sulphur and honey-yellow, the outer vanes narrowly edged with king’s 
yellow, the inner vanes, broadly, with pale primrose-yellow. Bill liver-brown 
the under mandible slightly mottled with reddish brown ; eyes red ; legs, toes 
and claws a deep flesh colour, the latter clouded with brown. 
Form, &c.— Typical. Bill very thick and rather short ; culmen strongly 
arched. Wings when folded reach over nearly the basal half of the tail, fourth 
and fifth quill feathers of the same length and longest, third and sixth slightly 
shorter, second rather shorter than the third, first narrow and about one-third 
