PHILETAIRUS EMINI 135 
wing-coverts and inner margins of the quills pale brown. ‘Iris brown; bill 
black ; feet reddish brown.”’ Total length 4:4 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2°5, 
tail 1:4, tarsus 0°8. 
Fischer’s Grey-headed Social-Waxbill inhabits the country 
at the south end of the Victoria Nyanza. 
The types were collected by Fischer on the Wembere 
Plateau, and at Nassa on Speke’s Gulf. The species has also 
been obtained by Emin at Usambiro. 
Philetairus emini. 
Nigrita emini, Reichen. J. f. O. 1891, pp. 158, 210 Mahalala. 
Phileterus emini, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 377 (1896). 
Pseudonigrita emini, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 173 (1904). 
Type. Similar to P. dorsalis, but paler; head and back pale brown ; 
sides of tail black. Ivis pale brown; bill black; feet flesh colour. Total 
length 4:7 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2°6, tail 1:3, tarsus 0'7. 3S, ?, 
11. 7. 90. Mahalala (Emin). 
Emin’s Social-Waxbill inhabits Ugogo. 
All that is at present known regarding the species is that 
Emin procured a pair, the types, at Mahalala in Ugogo. 
Philetairus cabanisi. 
Nigrita cabanisi, Fisch. and Reichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 54 Pare ; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 373 (1896). 
Philetzrus cabanisi, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 292, pl.6; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 
xiii, p. 251. 
Pseudonigrita cabanisi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ili. p. 173 (1904). 
Adults. Entire head above the cheeks jet black ; back and sides of neck, 
upper back and wings drab brown, shading into dark brown on the upper 
tail-coverts; tail brownish black, with a trace of white terminal margins on 
some of the feathers; axillaries, and inner half of the under wing-coverts, 
white ; inner edges of the quills pale brown. Cheeks and under parts pure 
white, with the flanks and outsides of the thighs brown; the white feathers 
which margin the brown flanks have broad black ends, and there is a patch of 
