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ROUND-WINGED WEAVER. 
Ploceus brackypterus, Swains. 
PLATE X. 
Above olive ; beneath yellow ; head and neck fulvous orange ; 
eye-stripe, chin, and throat black ; wings rounded, the 
fourth quill longest. 
"We can find no figure by which this Weaver can 
be identified with any species yet described. It 
comes very near to the Malimbus nigricollis of 
Vieillot ( Ois. Chant, pi. 45), but is entirely destitute 
of the black collar on the hinder part of the neck, 
possessed by that bird. And such is the confusion 
that pervades the whole of the finches, even in the 
best systems of the present day, that without a 
species is positively figured, it is utterly impossible 
to identify it, or even to know its modern genus. 
This species, we must therefore consider not only 
as new, but as highly interesting, inasmuch as it is 
an aberrant example of the genus, uniting the cha- 
racters of Ploceus and Sgmplectes. If we considered 
duly the structure of the wings, which are rounded, 
and the inequality of the lateral toes, we should 
place it with Sgmplectes ; but then the strong cylin- 
drical and thick bill, in nowise compressed, and the 
inflection of its margins which are also very slightly 
