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parties consisting of a male accompanied by several females. 
He also found the males in full plumage at the Ifume River 
in December. It has been met with by Emin at Mrogoro in 
Ugogo, and by Fischer at Maurui on the Pangani and at 
Speke’s Gulf. 
Mr. Jackson procured specimens in the Kilimanjaro district 
near T'aveta, at Kikumbuliu and Ulu in Ukamba, and at Ndera 
in the Teita country. ‘These Marsh Whydahs are very partial 
to long grass in swampy districts, and he mentions them as 
exceedingly common among the cane-like grass on the banks 
of the river at Nzoi. At Machako’s Dr. Sydney Hinde found 
them very abundant, usually frequenting the reed-beds; but 
almost every native village was frequented by at least one 
pair. Dr. Ansorge has collected specimens as far west as the 
Holulu River, in which district Mr. Oscar Neumann procured 
a Specimen at Kwa Mtesse in the Singo Province at the north- 
west corner of Victoria Nyanza, and others during his journey 
in the Ulu Mountains and at Kwo Kitoto in Kavirondo. 
In the Kenia district Lord Delamere found the species 
already in full plumage by the beginning of February; but 
the specimens procured by Mr. Harrison at Walamo, near 
Lake Rudolf, in February, and those met with by Mr. Pease 
at Roquecha in that month, and at Harrar in November, 
were in the brown winter plumage. The breeding season 
varies with the climate, the object probably being to secure 
an adequate supply of the food best suited to the young 
birds. 
Coliuspasser albonotatus. 
Vidua albonotata, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1848, p. 65 Natal. 
Coliuspasser albonotatus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 321 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 140 (1904). 
Penthetria albonotata, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 219 (1890 pt.) Natal, 
Transvaal, Shiré R. 
