2. TETB^NUEi. 209 



2. TETRJENURA. 



Type. 



Videstrelda, Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 325 T. regia. 



Tetraenura, Reichenb. Simjv. p. 61 (1861) T. reufia. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Tetrsenura regia. 



La Veuve de la Cote d'Afrique, Briss. Oni. iii. p. 129, pi. ix. fig. 1 

 (1760) ; Dciubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 8. fi?. 1. 



Emberiza regia, Linn. Si/sf. Naf. i. p. aTS (1766). 



Veuve a quatre brins, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 158, pi. 5 (1778) ; 

 Vieill. Ois. Chant pLs. 34, 35 (1805). 



Shaft-tailed Buntiiii?, Lath. Gen. S>/n. ii. pt. i. p. 183 (1783). 



Fringilla regia, Viei/l. N. Diet. d'Hisf. Nat. xii. p. 220 (1817). 



Vidua regia, Ctcv. Rigne Anim. i. p. 3S9 (1817) ; Graif, Gen. B. ii. 

 p. 355(1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 449 (1850); Hartl. Om. West- 

 afr. p. 136 (1857); Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 188 (1867); Grai/, 

 iland-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 6(559 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 63 

 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 181 (1872) ; Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 381 ; Bocage, Om. A?igola, p. 346 (1877-81) ; 

 Sharpe, in Oates' Matahele-Ld., App. p. 319 (1881) ; Holtib ^ 

 Von Pelz. Beitr. Om. Siidafr. p. 123 (1882) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 354 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 453, 848 (1884) ; 

 Shelley. Ibis, 1836, p. 342. 



Videstrelda regia, Lafr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 325. 



Tetraenura regia, Reichenb. Singv. p. 61, Taf. xxvi. figs. 217, 218 

 (1861). 



Vidua paradisea (n«c Z.), Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 207 (err.). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above black, 

 slightly mottled on the rump with grey bases to the feathers ; wing- 

 coverts entirely black, as also the secondaries ; bastard- wing, pri- 

 mary-coverts, and primary quills sootj^ brown, the latter narrowly 

 fringed with whity brown ; upper taii-eoverts and centre tail- 

 feathers black, the remainder brown, edged with whity brown, the 

 outer ones having a large spot of white at the end of the inner web; 

 crown of head black, separated from the back by a broad collar of 

 tawny buff ; lores, eyelid, and feathers at base of bill black ; ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, sides of neck, and under surface of body tawny buff, 

 more rufous on the sides of the body, which have a large tuft of 

 silky white plumes ; thighs tawny ; sides of vent and under tail- 

 coverts black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed 

 with isabelline near the edge of the wing ; quills below blackish, 

 white along the inner edge : " bill, feet, and claws coral-red ; iris 

 dark hazel " (F. Oates). Total length 12 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 

 2-9, tail 1"5, long centre feathers 9*7, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Similar to the i^maXe oi Steganara paradisea, hvit 

 without the tawny crown and eyebrow, lacking also the black streak 

 above the ear-coverts. The crown is always whitish with a lateral 

 stripe of dusky brown, the centre always more or less streaked with 



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