J so 
YELLOW “BACKED WHIDAH. 
the bill is deep black, except the edge and tip of 
the under mandible, which is nearly white ; feet, 
deep brown. 
Total length, 7f ; hill, from the gape ; wings, 
3 -j J q ; tail beyond, 3 T 2 „ ; from the base, 4| ; tarsus, 
j S B ; middle toe and claw the same ; hind toe and 
claw, 1 j ; lateral toes much shorter than the binder, 
and equal; spurious quill, 
CAPE, OR YELLOW-RUMPED WEAVER. 
Euplecies Capensis, Swains. 
Deep black ; rump and wing-covers, brilliant yellow. 
Loxia Capensis, Linn. A udorum Le Pinson noire et janne, 
Buffon, PI. Eni 101, 1. adult. — Grosbee tachetd du Cap de 
B. E. Buffon, PI. Enl. 659, 1. young Cape Grosbeak, La 
tliam, &c. 
The genus which immediately follows the "Wltidah 
Finches is that of Euplecles or the Weavers, so 
called from the extraordinary skill with which they 
fabricate their singular nests, which in some are 
pendant, and in other species united together under 
one common roof, so as to bear no small analogy to 
a bee-hive. Unfortunately, although we have ac- 
counts, and even specimens of many of the dwellings, 
great uncertainty hangs over the precise species of 
bird by which each is fabricated. 
