208 PLOCEIDJE. 



t, K. cS ad. ; X. 2 Mombasa. Rev. A. F. Buxton 



ad. sk. [P.]. 



fx-o. c?ad. etjuv.; Lamu. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



TT, p. 2 ad. sk. [P.]. 



<r. (^ ad. sk. Pang-ani (Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



T-4>- 6 2 ad. sk. Mauda Island. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



X- 6 ad. sk. Mamboio {Sir J. Kirh). Shelley Coll. 



^. (S ad. sk. Sassa, Niam Niam, Sept. F. Bohiidorff [CJ. 



o). 2 ad. sk. Tingasi, Aug. 14, 1883. Emin Pasha [P.]. 



a!, d ad. sk. Bejook, Bogos Land, July 18 Sharpe Coll. 



( TJ^. Jesse). 



/3'. d" ad. sk. Bejook, Bogos Land, July 18 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( TV. Jesse). 



y'. c? ad. sk. Bejook, July 16 ( IF. Jesse). Tweeddale Coll. 



8'. Juv. sk. Bogos Land (Esler). Sharpe Coll. 



('. S ad. sk. Shoa, May 25 (O. Antinori). Shelley Coll. 



2. Vidua hjrpocherina. 



Vidua hypocherina, J. ^- E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 260, 



pi. 16 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 136 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 47, no. 66G1 (1870); Oustalet, N. Arch. Mm. (2) ii. Bull. 



p. 141 (1879) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 340, 1888, p. 302 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1889, p. 367. 

 Vidua splendens, Heichen. Orn. Ce7itralhl. 1879, p. 180; id. J.f. 0. 



1880, p. 475, pi. 47. tig. 1 ; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 475, pi. 47. 



tig. 1 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 587 ; Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. i. 



p. 325 (1884) ; id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 135. 



Adult male. General colour above and below glossy steel-blue, a 

 little greener on the wing-coverts, which are black, edged with 

 steel-blue ; bastard-wing black ; primary-coverts brown ; quills 

 black, edged with whitish, the innermost secondaries with steel-blue 

 like the back ; tail-feathers black, edged with whitish along the 

 ends of the inner webs, the long centre feathers greenish black ; 

 under surface glossy steel-blue, with a few white or greyish-white 

 feathers on the flanks ; a large white patch along the sides of the 

 back, concealed by the wing ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; quills ashy below, white along the inner web : " upper 

 mandible horn-brown, imder mandible horn ; feet brown ; iris 

 brown" (Fischer). Total length 10-7 inches, culmen 0-25, wing 

 2-65, tail 1"7, long central feathers 8'5, tarsus 0"55, 



The winter plumage of this species has not yet been identified. 

 It is probably similar to the winter plumage of V. jirincipalis, and 

 has a broad white eyebrow, to judge from a specimen in the Shelley 

 Collection, which is changing into the blue plumage of the adult. 



Hah. Zanzibar district in Eastern Africa. Gaboon (doubtful), cf. 

 Oustalet, 1. c. Rochebrune gives many localities for the species in 

 Senegambia, but no one else has observed the species there. 



a. c? ad. sk. Jipe Lake, Sept. 27, 1885. F. J. Jackson, 



Esq. [P.]. 



b. J ad. sk. Plains south of Kilimanjaro. II. C. V. Hunter, 



Esq.rP.l. 



c. d. S ad. et juv. sk. T^gogo (Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



