7. PENTHETRTOrSIS. 221 



Long-tailed Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 114 (1783). 



Loxia macroura, Gen. Si/M. Nat. i. p. 845 (1788). 



Fringilla flavoptera, Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 41 (1805). 



Friiifjilla chrysoptera, Vieill. Enc. Mefh. iii. p. 964 (1823). 



Vidua clu'vsonotus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 178 (1837) ; Fraser, 



P. Z. S. '] 843, p. 52. 

 Vidua macroura, Grat/, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 (1849) ; Lap: Rev. et Maq. 



de Zool. 1850, p. .325 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. "137 (1857) ; i'd. 



J. f. O. 1861, p. 257 ; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1877, p. 28. 

 Pentheria macrura, Bp. Con-^p. i. p. 448 (1850). 

 Penthetria macrura, Caf>. Miis. Hein. Th. i. p. 176 (1850) ; Heuc/l. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 579 (1870) ; id. op. cit. iv. p. cxxxiii (1871); 



Finsch 8,- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 418 (1870) ; 8harpe, Cat. Afr. 



B. p. 63 (1871); Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 69; Sharpe S,- Bouvier, 



Bull. Soc. Zool. Fra/ice, i. p. 49 (1876) ; Fischer ^ Reichen., J. f. O. 



1878, p. 264 ; Oust. Noiw. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bidl. p. 108 (1879) ; 



Bocage, Orn. Anqola, p. 340 (1881) ; Peh. Verh. z.-b. Gesellseh. 



Wien, XXX. p. 613 (1881), xxxii. p. 508 (1882) ; Hartl. Abhandl. 



nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 202 (1884) ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. 



Yii. p. 197 (1885); Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 584; Matschie, 



J.f. 0. 1887, p. 298 ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1887, p. 305. 

 Coliostruthus macrurus, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 136; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 192 ; Shelley Sf Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289 : 



Shelley, Bus, 1883, p. 552. 

 Penthetria flaviscapulata {nee Ritpp.), Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 69 



(1864). _ 

 Vidua moineau, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 48, no. 6671 (1870). 

 Coliuspasser macrurus, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 348 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, 



p. 33 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. yiii. p. 259 (1886), x. p. 91 



(1888). 



Adult male. Velvety black with a slight gloss ; the mantle, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts bright yellow ; remainder of wings 

 and tail black, with a few brown margins on some of the 

 coverts and inner secondaries ; entire under surface of body black, 

 excepting the axillaries and under wing-coverts which are isabelline, 

 yellow along the edge of the wing : " bill and feet bluish black ; 

 iris brown " (Buttikofer). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0*6, 

 wing 3'2, tail 4-7, tarsus 0"S5. 



Adult femnle. General colour above brown, streaked with darker 

 brown on the mantle and back ; the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts uniform; lesser wing-coverts dark brown, edged with 

 olive-yellow ; median and greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with whity brown; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, with paler brown margins ; the ends also 

 decidedlj- lighter brown ; crown of head brown like the back and 

 similarly streaked with black, especially distinct on the sides of the 

 crown ; lores and a distinct eyebrow yellowish buff; feathers round 

 eye and ear-coverts bi'own ; cheeks and under surface of bod)' 

 ochreous buff with a decided yellow tinge on the throat and fore 

 neck, the latter being slightly more dusky ; sides of upper breast 

 with a few short streaks of darker brown ; sides of bodj- and flanks 

 pale brown, as also the thighs ; on the lower flanks a few streaks 

 of clear brown; under tail-coverts isabelline; under wing-coverts 



