64 UROBRACHYA ZANZIBARICA 
Gardens, London, and the other in the possession of the well- 
known aviculturist, Mr. J. Abraham. 
One can hardly believe that the U. affinis and U. pheenicea 
(Reichenow, J. f. O. 1892, p. 45) are alike in plumage, so I 
would suggest that the former may belong to U. mechowi, 
which Dr. Reichenow has, I think, wrongly referred to 
U. bocagei, a species which, I believe, has never been procured 
from so far north as the Quanza River. 
Urobrachya zanzibarica. (Pl. 30, fig. 1.) 
Urobrachya zanzibarica, Shelley, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 516 Pangani, Usam- 
bara, Melinda, Lamu. 
Urobrachya phcenicea (non Heugl.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 225 
(1890 pt. S. of Equator); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 330 (1896 pt. 
«.”); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 180 (1904 pt. German E. Afr.). 
Urobrachya hildebrandti, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 225 (1890) Mombasa ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 329 (1896). 
Urobrachya phcenicea hildebrandti, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ili. p. 132 (1904). 
Urobrachya nigronotata, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. vii. p. 7 (1897) Witw. 
Similar to U. axillaris in all its stages of plumage, and with the same 
shade of scarlet on the lesser wing-coverts, but differs in the bill being 
larger, and in full plumaged males the primary-coverts are mostly cinnamon. 
In the type the greater series of wing-coverts are almost entirely cinnamon. 
Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 3°4, tail 2°7, tarsus 1:0. Melinda 
(Kirk). 
The type of U. hildebrandti differs only in having the greater wing- 
coverts almost entirely black ; wing 3°35 inches. Mombasa (Hildebrandt). 
The type of U. migronotata is intermediate between the two last in the 
colouring of the greater wing-coverts. Witu (Jackson). 
I cannot look upon these specimens as more than varieties of one 
species. 
The Zanzibar Fan-tailed Whydah inhabits East Africa 
between 1° S. lat. and 10° 8. lat. 
Owing to the absence, formerly, of any full plumaged 
examples of U. phenicea in the British Museum, Dr. Sharpe, 
in 1890, described one of the typical specimens of U. zanzt- 
barica as the ‘adult male” of U. phenicea (Heugl.), and 
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