68 UROBRACHYA MECHOWI 
exception of the innermost feathers) uniform cinnamon ; secondaries with 
some imperfect buff edges; under wing-coverts cinnamon. Iris brown; bill 
greyish horn colour; feet black. Total length 7:3 inches, culmen 0:65, 
wing 3:6, tail 3:4, tarsus 1:0. 3g, 30.6.02. 8. Abyssinia (Degen). 
In the size of the bill and in all its other stages of plumage it closely 
resembles U. phenicea and U. azillaris. 
Trayersi’s Fan-tailed Whydah inhabits Shoa and Southern 
Abyssinia. 
The species was discovered by Dr. Traversi at Antotto in 
Shoa, and specimens have been collected in that country at 
Sutta and Urafa Bonata by Dr. Ragazzi, who found it in full 
plumage in October and not rare. Mr. HE. Degen met with it 
in flocks of male birds only at Manna Gasha west of Adis 
Ababa in June. 
In Southern Abyssinia Lord Lovat procured specimens at 
Lekaniti, and writes: ‘‘ A very local bird, but in large numbers 
where it is found. On our western journey from Adis Ababa 
to Dabous we passed through country inhabited first by this 
species, then during a few days’ march we saw only Penthe- 
triopsis macrocerca, and then once more the Urobrachya only 
was met with, the long-tailed Weaver, Penthetria laticauda, 
remaining constant throughout.” Mr. Pease saw large flocks 
of these birds among the grass and sedge at the edges of 
Lake Zwai and procured specimens at Lekamti. wy 
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Urobrachya mechowi. 
Urobrachya mechowi, Cab. Orn. Centralbl. 1881, p. 183; id. J. f. O. 
1882, p. 122 Angola. 
Urobrachya bocagei, pt. Sharpe Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 226 (1890) ‘Sp.e, 
Columbo”’ ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 1383 (1904 pt.) Quanza R. and 
Angola. 
Urobrachya axillaris (non Smith), Shelley, Ibis, 1902, p. 165 Karwngwesi. 
Urobrachya phenicea quanze, Hartert, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 56 (1908). 
Quanza fi. ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 133 (1904). 
? Urobrachya, affinis, Reichen, J. f. O. 1892, p. 45 Mengo. 
