Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| image = Plocepasser donaldsoni -Samburu National Reserve, Kenya-8.jpg

| image_caption=In Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Plocepasser donaldsoni |volume=2016 |page=e.T22718706A94593137 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22718706A94593137.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| taxon = Plocepasser donaldsoni

| authority = Sharpe, 1895

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Donaldson Smith's sparrow-weaver (Plocepasser donaldsoni) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in Africa from southern Ethiopia to central Kenya and southern Somalia. It was named in honor of the 19th-century American explorer Arthur Donaldson Smith.{{cite book |last1=Beolens |first1=Bo |last2=Watkins |first2=Michael |last3=Grayson |first3=Michael |title=The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals |date=2009 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |isbn=978-0-8018-9304-9 |page=383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jar_DwAAQBAJ |access-date=12 April 2024}}