218 



i. Ad. sk. 



k'. Ad. sk. 

 /'. Ad. sk. 



Mamboio, E. Africa {Sir J. Shelley Coll. 



Kirk). 



Ugoo-o {Sir J. Kirk). Shelley Coll. 



Loando, Angola {T. Thompson). Shelley Coll. 



2. Penthetria laticauda. 



Fringilla laticauda, Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 24 (1823). 



Coliuspasser torquatus, Riipp. Nene Wirb., Vog. p. 08, Taf. 3G. fig. 2 



(1835-40); J^es Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, p. 115 (1845); 



Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 77 (1845); Jfew^/. <Sy6f. Uebers. p. 39 



(1856). 

 "Vidua laticauda, Gray, Qen. B. ii. p. 355 (1849) ; Zf{/?-. Rev. et 



Maq. de Zool. 1850, p. 325 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 48, no. 6672 



(1870). 

 Pentheria laticauda, Bp. Consp. i. p. 448 (1850). 

 Penthetria laticauda. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 177 (1850) ; Heuyl. 



Ortt. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 580 (1870), iv. p. exxxiii (1871); Fischer, 



Zeifschr. yes. Orn. i. p. 326 (1884). 

 Coliuspasser laticaudus, 5/««/. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 405 (1870); 



Salvad. Ann. Genov. (2) i. p. 182 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1886, 



p. 347, 1888, p. 293 ; Salvad. Ann. Genov. (2) vi. p. 286 (1888). 



Adult male. Black, streaked with broad sandy-buff edges to the 

 feathers, less distinct on the wing-coverts, quills, and tail-feathers, 

 which are also black ; crown and nape scarlet ; hind neck velvety 

 black ; forehead, lores, feathers over the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 and throat black, followed by a broad collar of scarlet across the fore 

 neck ; this prtepectoral collar joined to the scarlet on the nape, 

 though almost disconnected by the black of the hind neck impinging 

 on to the throat ; remainder of under surface of body velvety black, 

 with a few remaius of sandy-buff edges to the feathers of the flanks, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and 

 lower surface of quills black : " bill black ; feet dusky rufous ; iris 

 chestnut" {Heuglin). Total length 9 inches, culmen Ow, wing 

 3-25, tail 5-6, tarsus 0"85. 



Hah. From Abyssinia to Shoa and south to the Kilimanjaro 

 district. 



a. cJ ad. sk. 



b. c? ad. sk. 



c. d. cS juv. sk. 



e. (S ad. sk. 

 /, y, h. <S ad. sk. 

 i. cJ ad. sk. 

 k. (S ad. sk. 



Abyssinia. 



Gondah, Abyssinia. 



Musgali, south of Antalo, May 



9, 1808. 

 Wanenamba, Shoa, Sept. 18 



(O. Ajitinori). 

 Mahal-uouz, Shoa, May, Aug. 



(O. A.). 

 Let Marafia, Shoa, June 29 



(0. A.). 

 Kilimanjaro. 



SLarpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, 



Esq. [C.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



[P.]. 



