14 VIDUA HYPOCHERINA 
b§. Hlongated tail-feathers very narrow ; 
under parts buff. . . SP ee egies 
b2. Hlongated tail-feathers buff igye fischeri. - 22 
b+, Bill black; elongated tail-feathers ee 
broad. . . : . paradisea, &. 25 
b. Four centre tail- feathers a elweatede . . Males in winter, females 
and young birds. 
ct. Some black on sides of head; sides of 
crown black. 
c?. Centre of crown nearly white ; bill dusky 
horn colour ; larger, wing about 3 inches paradisea. |» 2 — 
d*. Centre of crown pale rufous; bill red ; 
smaller, wing about 2°5. 
c®. More white on under parts . . . . hypocherina. 
d®, Less white on under parts . . . . serena. 
d1, No black on sides of head. 
e?. Upper parts strongly mottled . . . . Adults. 
e%. Sides of crown mottled with brown . regia. 
f3. Crown rufous shaded brown, streaked 
on the hinder half with black . . . fischerv. 
f2. Upper parts uniform brown or irregularly 
MOtbled) Weyer yen) ne NeemOUngNOpaliepectes. 
Vidua hypocherina. 
Vidua hypocherina, J. H. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1856, p. 260, pl. 16 
Paris Mus.; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 208 (1890); Shelley, B. 
Afr. I. No, 313 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 216 (1904). 
Vidua splendens, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 180; id. J. f. 0.1879, 
p- 326 Kibaradja; Forbes, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 457, pl. 47, figs. 1, 3. 
Male in breeding plumage. Head, neck, body and scapulars glossy 
blue black, slightly shaded with green towards the upper tail-coverts; tail 
with the four elongated feathers black glossed with green, and the remain- 
ing feathers dark brown, with white edges, broadest on their inner webs; 
wing dark brown, with broad, glossy, greenish blue edges to the inner 
feathers, and narrow buff edges to the primaries; under wing-coverts and a 
broad portion of the inner webs of the quills white. ‘Iris dusky brown; 
bill and legs dusky ’’ (Hawker) ; ‘bill and feet bright coral red” (W. A. 
Forbes). Total length 10-7 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2°6, tail 8:5, tarsus 
0:6. Ugogo (Kirk). 
Adult female. Centre of crown rufous buff, flanked on each side by a 
broad black band from the nostrils to the nape; a broad white eyebrow 
shaded in front and behind with rufous buff like the cheeks and ear-coverts, 
