212 Whydahs. 



Principal Whydah-Bircl occasional book name. 

 White-breasted Whydah, ditto. 

 Red-billed Whydah, ditto. 



* Vida finch, occasional old book name. 



* Dominican Bunting (Lth). 



* Dominican Widow Bird, * Dominican Whydah Bird. 



* Long'-tailed Sparrow (Edw.), * Long-tailed Bunting (Lth). 



* Variegated Bunting (Lth). 



" Koning Roodebec " Dutch V. in S. A. 



" Kaffir-fink," Local V. in the Transvaal, /Kendall (Sh). 



II 



Euibcrica scrciia (Linn. 1766). I'y'nigilla scrciia (Vll. 1817). 



Vidua soma (Cuv. 1827). ridcstrclda scrcna (hdih. 1850). 

 Einbcr'iza vidua (Linn. 1766). 

 E)}ibcrica principalis (Linn. 1766); Vidua principalis (Cuv. 



1817). B.M. Cat. xiii. 203. 

 Friugilla supcrciViosa (VII. 1817). 

 Vidua crythrorhyncha (Sw. 1837). 

 J'idua fuliginusa (Licht. 1854). 

 Vidua decora (Hartl. 1868). 

 Estrclda carmclita (Hartl. 1868). 



References. Butler. F.F. 279. PI. d & 9. Cassell. 401. 

 PI. S. Sw. i. 176. PI. 12. Russ. i. 208. PI. 7. Singv. 60. PI. 

 25. B.S.A. i. 145. Butler, i. 187. Gedney. ii. 121. Sh. 

 iv. 16. 



Range. Tropical Africa. 



This well-known cage-bird has a very extensive range. 

 but, in spite of this, most modern authorities consider that there 

 no necessity for the division of the species into geographical 

 races. South African birds are generally rather larger than 

 those from West, but the same applies to many specimens from 

 East Africa as w^ell. and anyhow there is perfect graduation 

 from the largest to the smallest. 



At the present day there is considerable doubt about its 



breeding h bits, which we will hope Aviculture will soon help 



to settle, up to date there is only one recorded instance of 



this bird's breeding in confinement, and this is so vague as to 



* The asterisk denotes an obsolete name in this and the other lists. 



