262 XOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 



121. Coliuspasser macrourus macrourus (Gm.) 



Liu-iii marroiira Gmelin, Si/sl. X'll. i. 2, p. 845 ( 1 789— " Habitat in Africa, in regno Whidah, ct ad 

 Huvium Senegal." Ex Buffon, Latham, etc.) 



(?(??. Zaria. 



I find that the birds from Angola are larger than tlio.se from Sierra Leone, 

 Liberia, the Gold Coast and Zaria : the wing.s of a serie.s of adult birds from Angola 

 ranging from 80-85'5 mm., while the others measure T6-Sr5 mm. I therefore 

 suggest that the two forms should be separated, and that the name "J^avojjfera " 

 (sic) might be used for the southern form : 



Friiigilla Jiavoptera Vioillot, Ilist. yat. Ois. ( 'haitt., Zone torridc, \>. (V.t, 



pi. xli. (IS05 — no definite locality). 

 FringiUa chr>/soptera Vieillot, Tabl. Eitc. Mi'tk. Orn. iii. p. 061 (1823 — New, 



corrected name for Jlaroptera. " On trouve cette espece sur la cnte 



occidentale de TAfriipie, partienlicTemeut dans le royanme de ('ongo et de 



C'acongo"). 



The distribution of C. macrourus macrourus and ('. mncroiirus flacopferus h 

 not yet certain, and possibly more than two forms might one day be separated. A 

 male from Iloriu, Southern Nigeria, collected by E. C Bryant, is too large for 

 C. m. macrourus, having a wing of nearly 84 ram., while the specimens from Zaria 

 have wings of 79 and 80, and others from Amambara 77-80 mm. Sierra Leone 

 birds do not exceed 8U mm., except one male with a wing of 82. Males from 

 Baraka, near the N.W. shore of Lake Tanganyika, in the Congo State, vary from 

 79 to 83 mm. Specimens from the P'atiko, Upper Wiiite Nile, belmig to the small 

 form, but an immature male from Igaga in Kavirondo (Ausorge coll.) has a wing of 

 83 mm. ! 



122. Aidemosyne cantans cantans (Gm.) 

 1, province of Zaria. 



123. Estrilda cinei-ea (Vicill.) 



1 ad., jirovince of Zaria. 



Our material is a very poor one and does not allow any discussion about 

 possible subspecies. 



124. Vidua sereua (L.) 

 Common about Zaria. In September males in full plumage. 



125. Steganura paradisea aucupum Neum. 



Stegatinra pnntd'sca tuiciipnni Neumann, Bull. B.O. Clah xxi. p. 4.'i (1908 — "Upper Guinea, 

 especially Senegambia." Type Djoufbel, east of Dakar, Riggenbach coll.) 



2 (? (? ad., near Sokoto. 



Kor the majority of specimens Neumann's diagnosis fits beautifully, as all our 

 specimens from the Senegal Colony have darker, more golden-brown hind-necks than 

 our birds from Angola, South and North-East Africa. A male from Gambaga, how- 

 ever, is not so dark on the neck as the Senegal ones. Very curious is a male from 

 Gambos in Mossamedes : its chest-patch is deej) chestnut, darker than in any other 

 specimen I have seen, and the liind-neck chestnut-rufous, at least as dark and even 



