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coverts, which are of the same cinnamon colour as the median-coverts, 
with the black portion confined to the three innermost greater wing-coverts 
and the extreme ends of the primary-coverts. ‘Iris brown; bill pale horn 
blue; feet slaty black.” Total length 6:5 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 3°3, tail 
2-7, tarsus 0°5. g, 28. 5.98. Nandi (Jackson). 
Adult female. Crown, back of neck, back, wings and tail mostly black, 
with tawny shaded brownish buff sides to the feathers; lesser wing-coverts 
with their edges more orange; a broad eyebrow and the sides of the head 
rufous buff, mottled with black on front of cheeks and hinder half of ear- 
coverts; underparts tawny-shaded brownish buff; crop, sides of neck and 
the flanks streaked with rather broad black shaft-stripes. ‘‘ Iris brown ; bill 
pale brown, the lower mandible whitish horn; feet brown, with a bluish 
tint.’’ Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 2°9, tail 2:0, tarsus 0°85. 
2, 28.5. 98. Nandi (Jackson). 
Adult male in winter. Head, neck, body and tail similar in colouring to 
those of the female; wings as in the full plumaged males, but with broader 
pale edges to the inner secondaries. g, 26.10.89. Kisumu (Jackson). 
Female, variety. Very similar to the male which has assumed most of 
its black feathers, but the tail, primaries and the lesser wing-coverts are as 
in the ordinary female; median wing-coverts black, with broad pale rufous 
edges; greater wing-coverts entirely jet black ; primary-coverts black, with 
broad rufous buff outer edges. Total length 5:0 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 
2:8, tail 2:0, tarsus 0:8. 92, 23. 6.98. Nandi (Jackson). 
Heuglin’s Fan-tailed Whydah replaces U. zanzibarica in 
British East Africa from 1° 8. lat. to the White Nile, and 
possibly ranges further south on the western side of Victoria 
Nyanza; but is itself replaced in Angola by U. mechowi, and 
in Shoa by U. traversi. 
The species is apparently abundant throughout the marshy 
districts to the north of Victoria Nyanza, where Mr. Jackson 
has collected a large series from Ntebbi, Kampala, Nandi and 
other places. It has been recorded from Bukome, Itale, Mengo 
(Stuhlmann), and from Bukoba (Hmin), but I have not seen 
these specimens. In its most western known range Dr. Ansorge 
procured specimens at the Holulu River, in the Congo Free 
State, and others in Toru, Uganda and Usoga. 
In the Nile district Heuglin discovered the species at the 
Sobat River, and remarked that these birds were generally 
