5. CHERA. 



213 



a-e. tS ad.et iaiQi. 



sk. 

 /. (S ad. sk. 

 y. <S ad- sk. 



h. c? ad. sk. 

 I. c? ad. sk. 



A;. (J ad. sk. 



I. c? ad. sk. 

 m-q. 2 ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 r-u. (S ad. et 



juv. sk. 

 V, w. (S ad. sk. 

 .r. cJ ad. sk. 

 y. (S ad. sk. 



z-d'. cJ ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 e . S ad. sk. 



/. S ad. sk. 



^'. S ad. sk. 

 ^', i'. Imm. sk. 



River Gambia. 



River Ciambia. 



S. Louis, Senegal (Z. La- 



ylaize). 

 Shoa {Sir W. C. Harris). 

 Koomaylee, Abyssiuia, 



March. 

 Koomaylee, May 23 ( W. 



Jesse). 

 N.E. Africa. 

 Ailat, Eogos-Laad {Esler). 



Ugogo, E. Africa {Sir J. 



Kirk). 

 Dar-es-Salaam {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Lamo {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Mauda Island. 



Tete, Zambesi {Sir J. Kirk). 



Tati, Matabele-Land, April 



30 {F. Gates). 

 Omaloko, Damara-Land, Jan. 



19 {C. J. Andersson). 

 Loanda (-F. Toukon). 

 Africa. 



Sliarpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



India Museum. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Shai-pe Coll. 

 Sharpe CoU. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Livingstone Ex- 



peiition. 

 W. E. & C. G. Dates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 



5. CHEEA. 



Chera, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 (1849) . . 



Range. Confiued to South Africa. 



Type. 

 C. procne. 



I. Chera procne. 



La Veuve h ailes rouges du Cap de Bonne Esp^rance, Daubeiit. PI. 

 Enl. iv. pi. 635. 



La Veuve a (Spaullettes, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 164 (1778); 

 Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 66, pis. 39, 40 (1805). 



Emberiza procne, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 39 (1783). 



Loxia callra, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 858 (1788). 



Emberiza longicauda, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 884 (1788). 



Emberiza imperialis, Sha20 in Miller's Cimel. P/iys. iii. p. 7 (1796). 



Fringilla longicauda, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 2l8 (1817). 



Vidua longicauda, Cuvier, Reyne Anim. i. p. 388 (1817). 



Fringilla cafEra, Liekt. Verz. Dutibl. p. 22 (1823). 



Vidua phseuicopterus, Stoains. Classif. B. ii. p. Il2, fig. 161 (1837). 



Chera procue, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 448 

 (1850); Gurney, Ibis, 1861, p. 133; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 190 

 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 465 ; Layard, Ibis, 18o9, p. 74 ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 49, no. 6675 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 

 p. 63 (1871) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 381 ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 207; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 347 (1877-81); Ay res, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 301, 1880, p. 107 ; Sharpe in Gates' Matabele-Laitd, Ajjp. 



