. Animals in menageries. enveloped in a black hood. 308 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER Inhabits Senegambia. Total length nearly 6 inches ; bill, from the gape i2 • fromthe front fg; wings 2fg; tail, beyond, 1^; base 2j^; tarsus,/j ; hind toe and claw i3 ; middle ditto ^. Structure of , but smaller : the black hood forms a narrow roundedlappet in front of the throat, and reaches as far as the breast. 85, Ploceus ruficeps. Above, olivaceous yellow ; beneath, pure yellow :crown of the head, and fore part of the throat, rufous •chin, ears, and frontal line, black. Inhabits Senegambia. Total
. Animals in menageries. enveloped in a black hood. 308 TWO CENTENARIES AND A QUARTER Inhabits Senegambia. Total length nearly 6 inches ; bill, from the gape i2 • fromthe front fg; wings 2fg; tail, beyond, 1^; base 2j^; tarsus,/j ; hind toe and claw i3 ; middle ditto ^. Structure of , but smaller : the black hood forms a narrow roundedlappet in front of the throat, and reaches as far as the breast. 85, Ploceus ruficeps. Above, olivaceous yellow ; beneath, pure yellow :crown of the head, and fore part of the throat, rufous •chin, ears, and frontal line, black. Inhabits Senegambia. Total length, about 5 inches; bill, gape,/g; wingtail, base nearly 2 ; tarsus |; middle toe and claw^ditto ^^g; inner toe rather shortest. Structure of the last, butmuch smaller. The yellow adjoining the black on the head isvery pure, and like that of the under plumage; and there isa slight tinge of rufous on the middle of the throat. 8Q. Ploceus erythrocephalus. Head, neck, breast, and upper tail covers, crimson : hinder. back brownish olive, striped with black : body, beneath,pale olive : wing covers tipt with white. Inhabits the Isle Mauritius. PI. Enl. 665. } BroAvn, {fig. 51,f) Total length about 5 inches; bill, gape ^| ; wings 2^ ; tail,beyond, fg ; ditto, base 1|; tarsus fg ; hind toe and claw -f^. Iknow not whether to arrange this bird as a Ploceus or a Eu-plectes : in structure it decidedly agrees the most with Ploceus^both in the bill, wings, and feet; but in habit, size, and castof colouring, it resembles the next species, which is a true Eu-plectes. Bill lengthened, conic, much compressed; commissurenot sinuated : tail even ; the first quill short, spurious; second OP NEW OR r^ITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 309 shorter than the third; circle round the eyes, and the lores,black : wings blackish ; tips of the greater covers with an ob-solete white band, and a broader one on those of the lessercovers : bill black : legs paler: claws broad, short, and wellcurved. 87. EuPLEC
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