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tail-coverts ochreous brown, with black centres; tail-feathers black, 

 the four long central ones straw-coloured ; crown of head light 

 sandy buff; occiput, nape, and hind neck black, like the sides of the 

 neck ; lores like the crown ; feathers round eye, ear-coverts, checks, 

 throat, and fore neck black ; remainder of under surface of body 

 light creamy buff, with a few narrow blackish streaks on the flanks; 

 thighs brown ; under tail-coverts creamy buff; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries blackish, with buff margins ; quills below blackish, 

 ashy along the inner edge. Total length 10 inches, culmeu 0-4, 

 wing 2-6, tail 1-55, long central feathers 7"8, tarsus 0"6. 

 Hah. Kilimanjaro District, E. Africa, to Shoa. 



a. c? ad. sk. Kilimanjaro. F. J. Jackson, Esq. [P.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. Kilimanjaro. H. C. V^. Hmiter, Esq. [P.]. 



4. STEGANUEA. 



Type. 

 Steganura, Reichenh. S>/st. Ai\ Taf. Ixxvi. fig. 30 (1850) . S. pavadisea. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



1. Steganura paradisea. 



Red-breasted Long-tailed Finch, Edioards, Gleanings, ii. p. 86, pi. 

 86 (1747). 



La Yeuve, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 120, pi. viii. fig. 1 (1760). 



Emberiza paradisea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. S\2 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 

 Nnt. i. p. 882 (1788). 



La Grande Veuve d' Angola, Daubcnt. PI. Mil. iv. pi. 194. 



La Veuve a collier d'or, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 155 (1778) ; 

 Vieill. Ois. Chant, pis. 37, 38 (1805). 



La Grande Veuve, Month, t. c. p. 162, pi. vi. (1778). 



Whidah Bird, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 178 (1783). 



Friugilla paradisea, Vieill. JJict. dHist. Nat. xii. p. 213 (1817). 



Vidua paradisea, Cuiier, Regne Anim. i. p. 389, note (1817); Miij^p. 

 Syst. Uehers. p. 77 (1845) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 (1857) ; Hartl. 

 Orn. Westafr. p. 137 (1857) ; id. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 257 ; Kirli, Ibis, 

 1864, p. 322 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 48, no. 6664 (1870) ; Finsch ^ 

 Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 425(1870) ; Sharpe,Cat. Afr. B. p. 63 (1871) ; 

 Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 181 (1872) ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 207 ; Bocaqe, Orn. A7i(/ola, p. 346 (1877-81) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 354; Bohm,J.f. 0.1885, p. 30; Shelletj, Ibis, 1886, p. 342, 

 1888, p. 302 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. x. p. 239 (1888). 



Steganura paradisea, Bp. Co7isp. i. p. 449 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 176 (1850) ; Reichenh. Si7igv. p. 63, Taf. xxviii.'^gs. 224, 

 225 (1861) ; A7itin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 69 (1864). 



Steganura sphenura, Bp. Consp. i. p. 449 (1850) ; Cah. 3Ius. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 176 (1850) ; Reichenh. Singv. p. 63, Taf. xxviii. nos. 226, 

 227 (1861). 



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



Vidua verreauxi, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1850, p. 56 ; Gray, Hand- 1. 

 B. ii. p. 48, no. 6665 (1870); Hengl. Orn. NO.-Afr. iv. -p. 467 

 (1870); Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 265 (1870); Fischer Sr 

 Reichen. J. f. O. 1879, p. 351 ; Sharpe in Gates' Matabele-Ld'., 



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