Bar-winged Weaver Ploceus angolensis Scientific name definitions

13 cm. Small slender-billed weaver, dark above and white below, more like a flycatcher (Muscicapidae) than like a typical weaver. Male has forehead, crown and nape blackish-brown, extending on side of head to level of bill; mantle and back blackish-brown with yellow feather tips in mid-line, rump yellow; upperwing and tail dark brown, remiges with white edges, greater wing-coverts with broad white tips and lesser coverts with narrow white tips (forming conspicuous wing­bars); chin and throat white, underparts white with yellow wash; iris red; bill black; legs brown. Female resembles male, but tips of mantle feathers whiter, much less yellow wash on underparts. Juvenile has crown dull olive-grey, cheek and narrow superciliary stripe white, upper mandible greenish-grey, lower mandible pinkish.