HYPOCHERA 5 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
a. Adult male and female totally dissimilar in 
their breeding plumage. 
a1. In full plumaged males: back never mot- 
tled; head, neck and breast not mostly 
yellow. Bill less stout. 
a?. No frill on the neck ; no bright red nor 
yellow on the plumage. 
. Tail entirely square; plumage black 
with acoloured gloss . . . Hypochera. 
6%. Four centre tail-feathers eeeemely 
long in full plumaged males. Vidua. 
62. A frill round the neck, and (with the 
exception of C. concolor) some bright 
red or yellow in the plumage. 
c’. Tail longer than the wing and 
graduated . . . . . « Coliuspasser. 
d’, Tail shorter than the wing: 
at, Tail distinctly rounded; full 
plumaged males with the head, 
neck, body and tail black; the 
lesser a red, orange or 
yellow ... Urobrachya. 
b+. Tail nearly rasta “red o or mallow 
not confined to the wings. Pyromelana. 
b1. Back always mottled with blackish centres 
to the feathers; head, neck and breast 
mostly bright yellow in full eee 
males; bill stouter . . Anomalospiza. 
b. Adult male and female poutowtnt sation in 
plumage at all seasons; back always striped Quelea. 
Genus I HYPOCHERA. 
Bill white or reddish, short, as broad as deep at the nostrils, the tip 
pointed ; culmen curved, somewhat swollen and rounded. Nostrils basal, 
the apertures round and almost entirely hidden by the frontal plumes. 
Primaries: 1 very small, not longer than the culmen; 2, 3, 4 and 5 
longest and nearly equal ; Shee quill falling short of tip of wing by 
the length of the tarsus. Tail square, the inner pair of feathers slightly 
the shortest (the latter character distinguishing it from all the other genera 
