UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



BULLETIN 223 



Plate 11. paradise Widow bird 



Upper: Male and female feeding on ground, photo by D. C. II. Plowes, at Nyamandhlovu, 

 Southern Rhodesia. Lower: Subspecific variations in tail form (after Chapin, 1922): 

 A, Steganura paradisaea aucupum; b, S. p. interjecta; c, S. p. orientalis; d, S. p. obtusa; 

 E, S. p. paradisaea. 



