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these birds, and suspect that the seemingly definite allocation of the 

 terms to species is open to question. 



Native name Tribe Locality 



Kadyasila Tumbuka Northern Rhodesia 



Kaujiri (female) Nyungwe Nyasaland 



Leng Baya French West Africa 



Mtundufundo Kunda Northern Rhodesia 



Nanchecheche (male) Nyungwe Nyasaland 



Miscellaneous Data 



Longevity: As is noted in my discussion of the genus as a whole, 

 Schorkopf (1937, p. 455) kept a male of the present species in his 

 aviary for 10 years. 



Brown- Winged Dusky Combassou 



Vidua funerea (Tarragon) 



This species of combassou is the least known of the three. Inas- 

 much as a good part of its range lies in areas where there are numerous 

 resident observers, I hope that additional observations will be made. 

 The following data comprise what we know thus far. 



Distribution 



The dusky combassou ranges from the eastern Cape Province, 

 Natal, Transvaal, the extreme northern part of South-West Africa 

 (near the Angola border), north to Mozambique, Nyasaland, the 

 Rhodesias, Angola, to the Kasai, Manyema and Kivu Districts of 

 the Belgian Congo, and to north-central Tanganyika. It has become 

 differentiated into three slightly marked races whose ranges are: 



Vidua funerea funera: Eastern Cape Province, Natal, southern Mozambique, 

 Nyasaland, and the Rhodesias (northern limit not yet worked out). It has 

 spread throughout a good part of eastern Cape Province in recent years. It was 

 first recorded near East London in 1916, and by 1922 it had reached Somerset East 

 (Anonymous, 1932, p. 96). 



Vidua funerea nigerrima: Northern Mozambique, southern and eastern Bel- 

 gian Congo (Katanga, Manyema, and Kivu Districts) east to Ukerewe Island, 

 Lake Victoria, and west to Angola, south to extreme northern South-West Africa 

 (Oshikanga), and north in eastern Africa to southern and central Tanganyika. 

 The identification to this race of the Oshikanga record is a geographic guess, as no 

 specimen from there has been examined. 



Vidua funerea wilsoni: From the Turkwel River area, extreme northwestern 

 Kenya Colony, west through the Sudan (Equatoria) to northeastern Belgian 

 Congo (Dungu, upper Uelle District), Cameroons, Nigeria, Ghana, Portugese 

 Guinea and to Senegal. Chapin (1954, p. 566) questioned the record from north- 

 eastern Belgian Congo as to subspecies. 



The altitudinal range of the species appears to be up to 5,500 feet. 

 It is essentially a lowland bird. 



