[Native (? Bechuana) name.] A South African species of weaver-bird, Euplectes taha of Sir A. Smith, now Pyromelana taha, the male of which is chiefly yellow and black.

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1836.  Sir A. Smith, Rept. of Explor. Exped.

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1906.  Times, 14 Aug., 2/6. Captain B. R. Horsbrugh … serving in the Orange River Colony … presented to the Zoological Society … the taha weaver.

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