Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 343 



Videstrelda puradisea, Lafr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1850, 

 p. 325. 



Steganura paradista, var. australis, Heugl. Faun. Roth. 

 Meeres, 1855, no. 161, fide Heugl. 1871. 



Steganura verreauxi, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 110. 



Vidua paradisea orientalis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 1871, 

 p. 583. 



Hab. The whole of Africa south from about 17° N. lat., 

 except in the extreme south, as Natal, Cape Colony, and 

 Namaqualand. 



16. COLIUSPASSER. Type, 



1831. Oryx, Less, (nee Oken, 1816, Mam.) 



Traite, Orn. p. 437 C. capensis. 



1837. Eupledes, Swains, (nee Euplectus, 



Leach, 1817) B. W. Afr. i. p. 180 C. capensis. 

 1835-40. Coliuspasser, Riipp. Neue Wirb. 



p. 98, pi. 36. fig. 2 C. laticaudus. 



1847. Penthetria, Cab. Arch. Naturges. 



1847, p. 331 C. laticaudus. 



1849. Coliustruthus, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.- 



Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1849, p. 158 . C laticaudus. 



1849. Chera, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 . . C. procne. 



1850. Orynx, Reichb. Syst. Nat. p. 76 . . C. capensis. 

 1850. Xanthomelana, Bp. Consp. i. p. 447 . C. capensis. 



1850. Urobrachya, Bp. loc. cit C. axillaris. 



1850. Pentheria, Bp. loc. cit C. laticaudus. 



1861. Niobe, Reichb. Singvog. p. 61, pi. 26. 



figs. 219, 220 C. ardens. 



Coliuspasser, although not a correctly classical name, can- 

 not, I maintain, be superseded by Penthetria, proposed as an 

 amendment more than seven years later. 



The present genus, as I have employed it, contains a very 

 well-marked group of species with many striking characters 

 in common, and not differing in any more essential points 

 than in the length of the tail in adult males. This genus 

 more nearly approaches Pyrornelana than Vidua, the winter 



