NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMAXJARO—OBERHOLSER. 885 



The name Euplectes Swainson, ^^ emplo>'6d by Doctor Reichenow '' for 

 this group, is preoccupied in Coleoptera by Euplectus Leach. ' for 

 which reason it was long ago rejected ])y Doctor Sharpe. '■'■ It should 

 be replaced ])y Ilyperanthti-s (Tistel. ' 



PYROMELANA FLAMMICEPS (Swainson). 



EnpJeHes fam)niepps Swainson, Birds West Afr., 18:-{7, 1, j). ISB, |)1. xiii (Sen- 

 egal). 



Six specimens, all in winter plumage: from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 

 5,000 feet altitude, November 10 and 21, 18S8; and Taveta, Septeml)er, 

 188S. In the individuals of this series there is a great deal of ditl'er- 

 ence in the depth of the ochraceous suii'usion l)oth on the upper and 

 lower parts, and this does not appear to be due to sex. 



COLIUSPASSER EQUES (Hartlaub). 



yidnu eques Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. 8oc. Lond., lcS68, p. 106, pi. xv (Kazeh, 

 Victoria Nyanza, (Teriiian East Africa). 



One specimen, an adult male, from Taveta, April 26, 1S88. 



LINURA FISCHERI Reichenow. 



Llnura fiadierl Reichenow, Ornith. Centrall^latt, 1SS2, ]>. 91 (Usegua, German 

 East Africa). 



A single adult female, from Taveta, November S, 1888. This ditfers 

 from the female of Vidua niacroinw {—principalis) in having the 

 tawny of the vertex and post-superciliary stripe replaced by ])ult' or 

 whitish; the dark parts of the plumage everywhere ])rown, not l)lack, 

 though the pattern of coloration is practically the same; and the breast 

 of a duller ochraceous. 



VIDUA MACROURA (Pallas). 



FringiUa macroura Pallas, in Vroeg's Catal., 1764, Adunilwat., p. 8 ("East 



Indies;" locality erroneous; should be Africa). 

 Emhiriza serena Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, p. 312 (no locality given). 

 Vidua principalis Authors. 



Five specimens, from Taveta and Mount Kilimanjaro (Maranu, 

 5,000 feet). An immature male just acquiring its lengthened tail- 

 feathers is, in color, quite like the adult female, though more exten- 

 sively black above and with the rump partly white. 



"Birds West Afr., I, 1837, p. 180 (type, Lo.via capeiisis Linuieus). 



'> Vogel Africas, III, 1904, p. 125. ' 



'■Zool. Miscell., Ill, 1817, pp. 80, 82. 



'^Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 227. 



^'Faturg. Thierr. hoh. Schul., 1848, p. IX (nom. emend, pro. Euplectes). 



