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row but distioct black liüe , beginning at the inner angle of 

 the lower mandible in front of the chin and running to the 

 sides of the fore-neck. Mantle , scapulars and lesser wing- 

 coverts rufous , each feather broadly edged and tipped with 

 chestnut, lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts sandy buff, 

 tail entirely sandy brown, showing slight undulations under 

 certain lights. Quills dark grayish brown , the primaries 

 narrowly edged with dirty white, the secondaries and ter- 

 tiaries broadly margined on the outer web with isabel , 

 inclining to fulvous; greater and second series margined 

 and very broadly tipped with white , especially the second 

 series , forming a narrow and a broad oblique white bar 

 across the wing. Under wing-coverts silvery gray, somewhat 

 tinged with fawn-color, the feathers along the edge of the 

 wing streaked with dark brown. Chin silvery white, throat 

 and chest gray, streaked with fulvous , and with some 

 faint blackish centres to the feathers; breast, abdomen, 

 thighs, flanks and under tail-coverts ashy gray, somewhat 

 paler on the centre of breast and abdomen. 



Iris dark brown , bill pale horn-color, feet and claws 

 yellowish horn-color. Total length 150 mM., wing 95, tail 

 68, tarsus 20, culmen 18. 



This species differs from the black-crowned congeners 

 especially by the pale streak in the centre of the crown , 

 by the red mantle and by the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 being gray instead of white. 



An adult male, 27 Februaiy, on the banks of the Ka- 

 singa River. 



107. Vidua par ad is e a (Liun.). 



Vidua verreauxii, Sharpe, Birds S. Atr. p. 452. 

 Vidua paradisea, Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 346; — Shelley, Ibis 1886, 

 p. 342. 



Two males with the hind neck paler than the western 

 form , but darker than V. verreauxii. — Collected 3 and 

 4 April , Kasinga River. 



Iris dark brown , bill and feet black. 



Notes from the Leyclen Museum , "Vol. X. 



