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of that country, for one out of the four specimens procured 
by von Mechow, and Shiitts’s specimen from Malanga, belong 
to ©. ardens, as well as one in the British Museum from 
Loando. 
Coliuspasser eques. 
Vidua eques, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 106, pl. 15 Tabora. 
Coliuspasser eques, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 323 (1896); Reichen. Vog. 
Afr, iii, p. 141 (1904). 
Penthetria eques, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 220 (1890). 
Adult male. Uniform jet black, excepting the wings ; lesser wing-coverts 
chestnut, passing into yellow along the edge of the bend of the wing towards 
the pinion; median coverts with buffy-brown edges; most of the greater 
coverts with a considerable portion white, decreasing in extent towards the 
seapulars, which are uniform black; quills with their basal portion white 
like the under coverts, the latter slightly tinted with rufous buff; remaining 
portion of the quills uniform black, or with a few narrow white or buff 
outer edges to the secondaries. ‘Iris brown; bill pale slaty blue; legs 
black.” Total length 6:4 inches, culmen 0°55, wing 2:9, tail 3, tarsus 0:8.” 
g,8. 3.00. Munisu (Delamere). 
Adult female. Upper parts mottled, brownish black with broad pale 
brown edges to the feathers; no white on the wing, which is blackish 
brown with pale brown edges to the feathers, and the lesser coverts mostly 
chestnut; under wing-coverts sandy buff, rather darker along the bend of 
the wing; a broad eyebrow and the under parts generally brownish buff, 
inclining to white towards the chin and centre of breast. Iris, bill and legs 
brown. 92, 2, 5.96. Machako’s (Hinde). 
Immature. Like the female. g,15.2.01. Roquecha (Pease). 
Male in winter plumage. Similar to the female in colouring of head, 
neck and body ; lesser wing-coverts brighter chestnut ; and the same amount 
of white on the wings as in their breeding plumage; dark parts of primaries 
jet black. g, 24.2.00. Walamo (Pease). 
Speke’s White-winged Whydah inhabits Hast Africa between 
7° S. lat. and 10° N., and eastward of 30° H. long. 
The type was discovered by Speke at Kazeh, better known 
as T'aboro in the Unyamwesi country. In this district Bohm 
met with it at Kakoma in February and March, in small 
