244 Dr. R. Bowdler Sliarpe on Birds 



crimson ; legs scaly horn-blue ; bill dull carmine. In 

 thick forest. 

 No. 324. ? ad. Mount Elgon, Feb. 25, 1890.— Bill dull 

 rose-brown ; legs dark horn-blue ; irides crimson. 



Fam. Ploceid^. 



16. Vidua principalis. ^^ 



Vidua principalis (L.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 203 (1890) ; Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. 325 (Pangani, 

 Maurui, Aruscha, Nguruman) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 135 

 ^(Bagamoyo, Lamu, Usegua, Wapokomoland) ; Reichen. 

 J. f. O. 1887, p. 70 (Kagehi, Loeru). 



Vidua erythrorhyncha (Sw.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. (2) i. p. 181 (1884; Shoa), vi. p. 255 (1888). 

 No. 65. S- Nzoni, Feb. 11, 1889. 



17. Chera procne. 



Chera procne (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 213 (1890). 



No. 54. S ^d. River Bogonoto, Masai Land, July 20, 1890. 

 — Bill pale horn-blue ; legs dark '^ shrimp "-brown j 

 irides brown. A few seen in a swamp amongst the 

 grass two camps after Doreta on our downward march. 

 The females were more plentiful than the males. 

 This is a remarkable occurrence of a South- African species 

 far away from its supposed habitat. There is not the least 

 doubt, however, that Mr. Jackson^s Masai specimen is the 

 true Chera procne ; it is identical with a male from Natal 

 in the British Museum. Some of the males in black plumage 

 have orauge shoulder-spots, followed by a broad band of bufE 

 across the median coverts, whereas others have the shoulder- 

 spot scarlet and the median coverts white. Mr. Jackson's 

 specimen has the scarlet shoulder-patch, and this is, I think, 

 the sign of an older bird. 



18. Penthetria ardens. 



Penthetria ardens (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 215 (1890). 



