. A dictionary of birds . Sycobeotus. (After Swainsoii.) Ploceus. neighbourhood, and especially the genus Vidua (Widow-bird) withits allies, so as to make of them a subfamily Floceinse, which in1847 was raised by Prof. Cabanis to the rank of a Family Ploceidse,equivalent to that of Fringillidx (Finch) in which they had beenincluded, on the ground that the Finches have but nine primarycjuills in their A^dng, while the Weaver-birds have ten. Follo^dngSundevall, Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. Mus. xiii. jDp. 198-511) dividesthe Ploceidx into two subfamilies—Viduinai (with 42 genera and i.

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