COLIUSPASSER JACKSONI 55 
Hartlaub’s Marsh Whydah ranges from Benguela into the 
Upper White Nile district eastward to Nandi on the Equator, 
and Kondiland, about 10° S. lat. 
Anchieta discovered the type at Caconda, where it was 
known as the “ Quindembere.” He has since obtained a speci- 
men at Galungo on the Bengo River in Angola, where its 
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native name is ‘* Xituco,”’ and it feeds on seeds. In the ad- 
joining Machinge country Sesinando Marques procured another 
specimen, which he informs us was known to the natives as 
the “‘ Bimba.” To the eastward it has been obtained by Dr. 
Fullebourn in Kondiland. 
In Equatorial Africa, Emin procured a specimen at Wakala, 
the type of Penthetria hartlaubi, Cab., 1883; Dr. Stuhlmann 
one at Mengo, and it is known to me by the type of Penthe- 
triopsis humeralis, which, according to the label, was shot at 
Nandi, and not on Mount Elgon, as recorded in the original 
description. On comparing this specimen with the one I have 
described from Galungo, it differs only in the tail measuring 
4°5 inches, and I cannot admit it to be distinct from C. 
hartlaubi (Bocage). 
Coliuspasser jacksoni. 
Drepanoplectes jacksoni, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 246, pl. 5 Masailand, 
Kikuyu; Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 143 (1904). 
Coliipasser jacksoni, Shelley B. Afr. I. No. 327 (1896). 
Male in breeding plumage. Head, neck, body and tail entirely black ; 
wings dark brown with pale edges to the feathers, broadest towards the 
lesser wing-coverts, the least series of which are almost or entirely pale fawn- 
colour of the same shade as the under wing-coyverts. ‘‘ Iris brown; bill with 
the base and lower mandible black, remainder of upper mandible pale 
green.” Total length 13 inches, culmen 0°75, wing 3:5, tail 8°8, tarsus 1-1. 
3, 26.9.99. Mt. Settima (H. J. Makinder). 
Female. Similar in general plumage to that of C. macrowrus ; but differs 
in the sandy shade of the least wing-coverts, the nearly uniform pale fawn 
