PLOCEUS CAPENSIS.— Smith.* 
Aves. — Plate LXYI. — Fig. 2. — Male. 
P . fronte, gutture, pectoreque aurantiis ; vcrticc, abdomincque flavis ; nucha, dorso, caudseque tcctri- 
cibus superioribus subsulphurois ; cervice, regione interscapulari, humerisque viridi-flavis, brunneo- 
umbratis ; alarum tectricibus remigibusque purpureo-branneis, externe flavo-marginatis ; cauda 
olivaceo-brunneS, plumis extern^ flavo-marginatis ; rostro livido-brunneo ; oculis pallidh rubris ; pedi- 
bus carneis. 
Longitudo corporis cum capite 4J unc. ; caudas 2 ; ' unc. 
Ploceus abyssinicus. — Cuv. Lesson , Traite d’Ornitliologie, tom. i. p. 434, 1 830. 
Ploceus capensis. — Smith , Proceedings of South African Institution, 1832. 
Colour. — Front, chin, throat, and breast saffron-yellow; top of head, sides 
of neck, belly and under tail coverts gamboge-yellow; nape, back, and upper 
tail coverts intermediate between lemon and honey-yellow; back of neck, 
interscapulars, and shoulders greenish yellow, faintly clouded with pale olive 
brown — the middle of each feather being of the latter colour. Lesser wing 
coverts, primary and secondary quill coverts, and the quill feathers dark 
purplish brown, the outer vanes edged with sulphur- yellow, and the tips of 
all, except the quill feathers, of the same colour. Tail above olive brown 
tinted with yellow, beneath pale sulphur-yellow, the outer vanes of all the 
feathers distinctly edged with greenish yellow. Bill livid brown. Eyes light 
red. Feet and claws flesh-coloured. 
Form. — Typical. Bill long, straight, conical, and pointed ; wings when 
folded reach to the commencement of the last half of the tail, the first quill- 
feather rudimentary, the second, third, and fourth equal and longest, the fifth 
* This species stands labelled in the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes as Ploceus Abyssinicus, Cuv. ; 
and by the same name it has also been indicated by Lesson. Under that name we also should have pub- 
lished it, had not Loxia Abyssinica been referred to Ploceus, when the groupe was first established, and 
consequently from that moment constituted, according to custom, the proper Ploceus abyssinicas. The 
circumstance also of the species not being found in Abyssinia, likewise renders the name objectionable. 
