. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. P. A. Clancev 230 1989 109(4) 6°. Figure 1. Sketch-map showing the disposition of the races of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius 1. Philetairus socius socius (Latham); 2. Philetairus socius eremnus Clancey; 3. Philetairus socius xericus Clancey; 4. Philetairus sociusgeminus Grote. It will be noted that the range of 2 is split into two sectors and the taxon is as a result polytopic. Measurements. See Table 1. 207 specimens examined. Range. Northwestern Cape Province to the south of the Orange R. in Bushmanland, southeast to
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. P. A. Clancev 230 1989 109(4) 6°. Figure 1. Sketch-map showing the disposition of the races of the Sociable Weaver Philetairus socius 1. Philetairus socius socius (Latham); 2. Philetairus socius eremnus Clancey; 3. Philetairus socius xericus Clancey; 4. Philetairus sociusgeminus Grote. It will be noted that the range of 2 is split into two sectors and the taxon is as a result polytopic. Measurements. See Table 1. 207 specimens examined. Range. Northwestern Cape Province to the south of the Orange R. in Bushmanland, southeast to Kenhardt, southern Great Namaqualand, Namibia, south from about Keetmanshoop to the Orange, and in the east north to about Gobabis (at Perdepan), southwestern and southern Botswana in the Gemsbok National Park, and the northern Cape from the Namibian border to Kuruman-Olifantshoek-Postmasburg. Ecologically associated with reddish sands and areas with red Kalahari sand-dunes. The most numerous subspecies. Remarks. Smith, in his Illustrations (1838), uses the spelling Philetaerus for the generic name of the Sociable Weaver, the type of which is Swainson's Euplectes lepidus, as proposed in Lard. Cab. Cyclopaedia, vol. 2, Menageries, p. 309, this earlier than 1837. Smith's Philetairus lepidus as named in Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. i, 1837, from Kuruman district is, therefore, pre-occupied by Swainson's slightly earlier combi- nation. Moreau (1962) equates Swainson's name with Latham's Loxia socia of 1790. In the event of Swainson's lepidus being viewed as a nomen nudum and Smith as the specific name's author, the locality Kuruman and diagnostic characters place it as a synonym of nominate P. socius. Philetairus socius eremnus Clancey, Durban Mus. Novit., vol. v, 4, 1957, p. 48: Kransfontein, north of Prieska, northern Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appeara
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