38 COLIUSPASSER LATICAUDUS 
metrurus does from C. albonotatus, that is, in the length of the 
tail of the male in full breeding plumage. In this species it 
varies from 20 to 25 inches; the greatest length of tail I have 
met with in the South African C. progne is 18 inches, but in the 
specimen described by Stark (Faun. 8. Afr. B. 1. p. 189) it is 
recorded at 19°50. 
In the British Museum there are five of Lord Delamere’s 
specimens, comprising an adult male almost in winter plumage, 
but still retaining the elongated feathers of the tail, which are 
much worn and have faded into brown, also an adult female, 
likewise in worn plumage; both of these were obtained at 
Likipia on January 19. Two months later, at Ngari, he shot 
the full plumaged male I have described as the type and two 
hens in fresh plumage, so that probably the species has an 
autumn as wellasa spring nesting season. It is apparently not 
uncommon within its very limited range, for Mr. Jackson has 
procured many specimens; the first was at the Bogonoto River 
in Masailand, and during his journey to the coast, after leaving 
Doreta, he saw a few, mostly hens, in a swamp frequenting the 
high grass. He afterwards met with them in similar situations 
to the north of Lake Elmateita and to the east of the Mau 
Ravine, and the females were always more numerous than the 
males. 
Coliuspasser laticaudus. 
Fringilla laticauda, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823) Nubia. 
Coliuspasser laticaudus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 219 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. 
Afr. iii. p. 136 (1904). 
Penthetria laticauda, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 218 (1890) ; Grant, Ibis, 
1904, p. 257 Harrar, Dedgen. 
Coliuspasser torquatus, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vég. p. 98, pl. 36, fig. 2 (1835- 
40) Simien. - 
Male in breeding plumage. Jet black, including the under wing-coverts, 
with sandy buff edges to some of the feathers of the back, wings, tail and 
