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under tail-coverts ; hinder two-thirds of the crown, nape, a narrow band 
on sides of neck and broad collar across the lower throat scarlet; the red 
feathers fading to yellow or white towards their base, and those of the back 
of the crown and the nape have narrow black edges. ‘‘ Iris brown bill and 
legs black.” Total length 10:7 inches, culmen 0:55, wing 3-2, tail 7:2, 
tarsus 09. g, 29.11.99. Nyrobe (Delamere). 
Adult female. Upper parts, as well as the under wing-coverts, mottled 
brownish black with sandy brown edges to the feathers; a well-marked buff 
eyebrow; under parts pale sandy brown, fading into buff towards the chin 
and on the middle of the breast and abdomen; crop and sides of body 
partially streaked with brownish black. Ivis dark brown; bill and legs 
pale brown. Total length 6:0 inches, culmen 0:55, wing 3:1, tail 2-7, tarsus 
0-9. 9, 21.2.99. Jawaha (Lovat). 
Male in winter plumage. Similar in colouring to the female; but differs 
in the wings and tail being blacker, the latter longer, and the under wing- 
coverts entirely black. ‘‘ Ivis, bill and legs dark brown.” 4g, 4. 1. 99. 
Chelunco (Lovat). 
The Red-naped Whydah ranges from the Kilimanjaro 
Mountain into Abyssinia. 
Fischer collected specimens at Komboko to the south-west 
of Kilimanjaro, in Arusha, at Susua and Lake Naiwasha, and 
on the mountains of Ukira, and he found a nest, containing 
three eggs, which was placed in a bush. ‘The eggs were 
strongly glossed, whitish, with reddish brown and violet grey 
spots, most numerous at the thick end, and measured 0°66 x 
0-48. Mr. Oscar Neumann also procured specimens in the 
Taveita and Kikuyu countries. 
On the south-western slopes of the Kilimanjaro Mountain 
Mr. Jackson found them fairly plentiful in one place only, 
where, in May, they were apparently breeding, as they were also 
doing when he met with them in July on Mount Elgeyo at an 
elevation of 8,000 to 9,000 feet. He writes: ‘ Only seen in 
long reeds and bulrushes at the swampy end of the small lake 
on the top of Hlgeyo, evidently breeding. I also found 
them very plentiful in the long grass near Lake Nahuro. 
This bird has a curious habit of making a playground for itself. 
I noticed several in the long grass, and I saw the male 
