52 COLIUSPASSER MACROCERCUS 
country it has been met with by Dr. Ansorge, and as Bohndorff 
found it in the Niam-Niam country it probably inhabits the 
whole of the Central African Lake region. 
The eggs are pale green, or greenish grey spotted with 
grey, and measure 0°8 X 0°55. 
Coliuspasser macrocercus. 
Fringilla macrocerea, Licht. Verz. Doubl., p. 24 (1823) Nubza. 
Coliuspasser macrocercus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 325 (1896); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 137 (1904). 
Penthetriopsis macrocerca, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 223 (1890). 
Coliuspasser flaviscapulatus, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 98 (1835-40) 
Abyssinia. 
Male in breeding plumage. Black, with the lesser wing-coverts canary- 
yellow; some pale brown or whitish edges to many of the other wing- 
feathers ; end portion of the primaries dusky ; under wing-coverts buff, with 
the edge of the bend of the wing bright yellow. ‘“ Iris dark steel blue ; bill, 
upper mandible black, lower one brownish grey; feet dark grey.” Total 
length 9 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3°5, tail 5-0, tarsus 0-95. 3, 11. 7. 02. 
S. Abyssinia (Degen). 
It closely resembles C. macrowrus in all its other plumages. 
Adult female. Wing 3:3, tail 2-4. 
Male in winter. Upper mandible reddish brown, lower one lighter ; legs 
brown. 
Lichenstein’s Yellow-shouldered Whydah inhabits the 
Abyssinian district. 
The most southern range known to me for this species is 
Baroma (9° N. lat.); here Lord Lovat met with it associating 
with QO. laticaudus in flocks. Heuglin found it common in 
Tigré and near Adowa in large flocks, at elevations between 
4,000 and 7,000 feet, and also saw it in the country surrounding 
Gondar, where Riippell procured the type of C. flaviscapulatus. 
He records their flight as not powerful, the note as a melan- 
choly pipe, and remarks that “ when alarmed ”’ they hide among 
pea. 
