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Goura in September, and at Bussaler in November, and Mr. 
Elliot obtained it at Hillier. Mr. Hawker, on November 30 
and December 2, observed it in flocks near the water at 
Arabsiyo and Gebili; they were then in winter plumage and 
had congregated in flocks, and were conspicuous only by their 
red bill. Lord Lovat shot one at Hargeisa in Northern Somali- 
land, and Mr. Pease found the species in Southern Abyssinia, 
in the high trees bordering the marshes of the Errer Gota 
River, and never in any other locality. In Shoa Dr. Ragazzi 
procured two specimens in full plumage in August. Towards 
the end of that month the males moult into the winter 
plumage, which closely resembles that of the females, and 
the spring moult takes place about March. 
Vidua paradisea. 
Emberiza paradisea, Linn. 8. N. (ed. x.) p. 178 (1758) ; id. (ed. xii.) i. p.312 
(1766) Angoia. 
Vidua paradisea, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 316 (1896). 
Steganura paradisea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 211 (1890); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 223 (1904); Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 257 Tadejemulka ; 
Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1904, p. 82 ‘ St. Thomas Isl. ?”; Reichen. Vég. 
Afr. iii. p. 223 (1904). 
Vidua verreauni, Cass. Pr. Philad. Ac. 1850 (June), p. 56 Abyssinia. 
Steganura sphenura, Bp. Comsp. i. p. 449 (1850, July) Abyssima. 
Vidua paradisea orientalis, Heugl. Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 583 (1870). 
Whydah Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 178 (1783). 
La Veuve au Collier d’Or, Vieill. Ois. Chant. p. 63, pls. 37, 38 (1805). 
Male in breeding plumage. Entire head, throat, back, wings, tail, sides 
of abdomen and the under tail-coverts black, hinder half of the neck and 
the breast buff, with the crop and front of chest chestnut; under surface of 
e quills ashy brown, with the inner edges white like the under wing-coverts, 
he latter mottled with black at the bend of the wing. ‘‘ Iris dark brown ; 
bill black ; tarsi and feet dusky brown” (T. Ayres). Total length 16 inches, 
culmen 0°45, wing 3, tail 13-3, tarsus 0°7. ¢, 30.3.73. Tati (F. Oates). 
Adult female. Head buffy white, with a broad black band on each side 
of the crown above the eyebrows from the nostrils to the nape; a black 
patch on the upper and hinder portion of the ear-coverts and a dusky spot 
on the lower portion; the buff of the crown mottled on the hinder half 
