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Tawny Buff. Lateral margins of crown and occiput dusky Saccardo's 

 Umber, each feather with a Fuscous shaft streak. Some of buffy 

 feathers of central portion of occiput also with Fuscous medial streaks. 

 Two lateral coronal bands broadening markedly on occiput. Line 

 from bill through and behind eye Fuscous. Back and upper wing- 

 coverts tawny buff with Fuscous medial portions. Dark inner areas 

 widening on upper wing-coverts to the extent that buffy areas are 

 reduced to fairly broad edgings. Remiges dusky Clove Brown to 

 Fuscous. Long innermost secondaries broadly edged with tawny 

 buff. Feathers of lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dull, 

 dusky Tawny-Olive, with centers dusky Olive-Brown. Outer rectrices 

 Clove Brown to Fuscous, narrowly edged, and somewhat more broadly 

 tipped with white or buffy white. Median rectrices somewhat paler, 

 grayish brown. Cheeks, auriculars, sides of throat, entire breast, 

 flanks, sides, and thighs pale Ochraceous-Buff to pale tawny buff. 

 Chin, center of throat, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white. Iris 

 and feet brown. Bill reddish brown. 



Female: Indistinguishable in coloration from nonbreeding males. 

 Wings 62-68 mm. Tail 35.5-39 mm. Culmen 9-11.5 mm. Tarsus 

 12-13 mm. 



Juvenal (sexes alike) : Similar to nonbreeding adult plumage, 

 but with crown and occiput more uniformly Olive-Brown. Lateral 

 areas only faintly darker than median portion. Edges of feathers of 

 upper back, upper wing-coverts and remiges slightly more rufescent, 

 Buffy Brown, of nape almost uniform Buffy Brown. Cheeks, chin, 

 throat, and breast browner, between Avellaneous and somewhat 

 tawny Wood Browu. 



Vidua amauropteryx nigeriae 



Adult male in breeding plumage: Similar to corresponding 

 stage of nominate race but with gloss slightly more greenish, Dull 

 Blue-Green Black. Bill whitish. Feet pale, to very pale, brownish. 

 Size slightly smaller, with wings 61-66 mm., tail 40^0,5 mm., culmen 

 9-10 mm., tarsus 12.5-13 mm. 



Adult male in nonbreeding plumage : Like that of the nominate 

 race. 



Female: Like that of the nominate race. 



Juvenal: Like that of the nominate race. 



Native Names 



The following are native names reported for the glossy combassou. 

 I doubt that the natives distinguish between the different races of 



