| Fox's weaver | |
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| Specimen in Nairobi National Museum | |
| Conservation status | |
 Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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 of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is endemic to Uganda.
Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps. It is threatened by habitat 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 to Ploceus spekei by C.H.B. Grant and Mackworth-Praed in 1947. The specimen collector was recorded as being T.V. Fox however some have suggested that it referred to Harold 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.
References
- BirdLife International (2017). "Ploceus spekeoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22718933A118849332. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22718933A118849332.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- Grant, C.H.B.; Mackworth-Praed, C.W. (1947). "A new species of weaver from Uganda". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 68: 7-https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40587771.
- Coote, J.M. (September 1956). "The Kivu Mission, 1919–10". The Uganda Journal. 20 (2): 108.
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| Ploceus spekeoides | |
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