6. PENTHETEIA. 219 



3. Penthetria hartlaubi. 



Penthetria hartlaubi, Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 341 (1881). 

 Coliuspasser hartlaubi, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 3-47. 



Adult. Of large size, entirely silky black, the lesser wing-coverts 

 bright orange-yellow, the median series pale fawu, the greater 

 coverts edged with fulvous ; wing-coverts partly fawn-yellow, partly 

 black ; quills and tail-feathers shiniug black ; tail long, graduated ; 

 bill leaden, the toniia whitish ; feet black ; iris dusky. Total length 

 10-6 inches, culmen 0"7, wing 4*3, tail 7"5, tarsus 1. {Bocage.) 



Hah. Benguela. 



4. Penthetria albonotata. 



Vidua albouotata, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1848, p. 65; id. Journ. 



Philad. Acad. i. p. 241, pi. 30. fig. 1 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 355 (1849); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 137(1857); Kirk, Ibis, 



1864, p. 322; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 189 (1867); Gray, Iland-l. 



B. ii. p. 48, no. 6667 (1870); JReichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 28. 

 Urobrachya albonotata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 448 (1850) ; Mvnteiro, Ibis, 



1862, p. 337. 

 Penthetria albonotata, Finsch ^ Hartl. Tog. Ostafr. p. 420 (1870) ; 



Sharpe S,- Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 48(1876) ; Bocage, 



Orn. Angola, p. 342 (1881) ; iSharpe, in Oates' Maiabele-Land, App. 



p. 320 (1881) ; Holuh ^ Von Pelz. Beitr. Or7i. Siklafr. p. 124 



(1882) ; Shcape, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 460 (1884) ; Matschie, 



J.f. O. 1887, p. 154. 

 Coliuspasser albonotatus, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 348 ; Biittik. Notes 



Ley den Mus. xi. p. 75 (1888). 



Adult male in hreeding-plumage. Entirely velvety black, slightly 

 browner underneath ; quills and tail black, with slight remains of 

 whitish edgings on the secondaries ; lesser wing-coverts bright 

 yellow, forming a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; bastard-wing black ; 

 median and greater coverts black, externally edged with brown, the 

 latter series broadly tipped with white, the outer greater coverts 

 entirely white, like the primary-coverts ; all the quills excepting 

 the innermost secondaries white at the base ; under wing-coverts 

 white, the edge of the wing yellow ; axillaries yellow with white 

 bases : " bill pale bluish violet ; legs black ; iris hazel " {F. Oates). 

 Total length 6*3 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2-8, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. S.E. Africa from IS^atal to the Zambesi ; West Africa from 

 the Cunene River to Gaboon, 



a. (5 hiem. sk. Umbilo near Durban, Natal, Seebohm Coll. 



July (7". L. Ay res). 



b, c. c? ad. sk. Weeuen, Natal, Dec. 1877 Forbes Coll. 



( W. Arnold), 



d, e. S ad. sk. S.E. Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Transvaal, Jan. 24, 1842 Sharpe Coll. 



{Wahlberg). 



. S ad. sk. Taraaaetsie 'River, Dec. 16, W. E. & C. G. Oates 



1874 {F. Oates). Esqrs. FP.]. 



