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    Ploceidae is a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers, weaverbirds, weaver finches, or bishops. These names come from the nests...
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  • Weavers, widowbirds, and allies form the family Ploceidae. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 122 species; 67 of them are...
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    weaver (Ploceus capensis) is a species of bird in the weaver family, Ploceidae, found in southern Africa. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques...
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    fairy-bluebirds Peucedramidae: olive warbler Urocynchramidae: Przewalski's finch Ploceidae: weavers Viduidae: indigobirds and whydahs Estrildidae: waxbills, munias...
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    Summers-Smith 1988, p. 254. Vaurie, Charles; Koelz, Walter (1949). "Notes on some Ploceidae from western Asia". American Museum Novitates (1406). hdl:2246/2345. Summers-Smith...
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    Anaplectes (category Ploceidae)
    Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae. The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach...
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    cardinals in the family Cardinalidae; one is a member of the weaver family Ploceidae. The word "grosbeak", first applied in the late 1670s, is a partial translation...
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    Hypocryptadius Montifringilla Onychostruthus Passer Petronia Pyrgilauda Ploceidae Amblyospiza Anaplectes Brachycope Bubalornis Dinemellia Euplectes Foudia...
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    confusion with P. melanocephalus), is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae found in much of sub-Saharan Africa. It has also been introduced to Portugal...
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  • family Icteridae), and the red fody (Foudia madagascariensis, family Ploceidae). A fertile egg was made from the domestic canary and the chestnut-shouldered...
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