| Fox's weaver | |
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| Specimen in Nairobi National Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Ploceus |
| Species: | P. spekeoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Ploceus spekeoides C. H. B. Grant &Mackworth-Praed, 1947 | |
Fox's weaver (Ploceus spekeoides) is a species ofbird in the familyPloceidae. It isendemic to Uganda.
Its naturalhabitats are moistsavanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowlandgrassland, andswamps. It is threatened byhabitat loss.
A specimen was collected in 1913 from Teso in central Uganda. It was gifted to the British Museum of Natural History in 1923 and identified as a distinct species closely related toPloceus spekei by C.H.B. Grant and Mackworth-Praed in 1947. The specimen collector was recorded as being T.V. Fox[2] however some have suggested that it referred toHarold Munro Fox. There was however a Thomas Vernon Fox (20 November 1878 - 13 March 1910) in the Ugandan administrative services between 1908-1918 who collected specimens of birds from the region.[3]
