564 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant o?t 



24. COLIUSPASSER MACROCERCUS. 



Coliuspasser viacrocercus (Liclit.) ; Slielley, iv. p. 53 

 (1905) ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 347. 



Lichtenstein's Yellow-sliouldered Whydali ^vas met with 

 near Addis Al)baba, on the npper part of the Didessa River, 

 in Gomma, Kaffa, Kullo and Walamo, at elevations varying 

 from 1800 to 6200 feet. The males killed between the 

 20th of June and the 13th of October are in full plumage ; 

 those killed in jNIay are in eclipse, and two males obtained 

 on the 12th and 15th of June are specially interesting, being 

 in moult and showing the change from the eclipse to the 

 full plumage. 



25. Urobrachya phcenicea. 



UrubracJiya phcenicea (Heugl.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. 

 Zool. Soc. xix. p. 288 (1910). 



A large series of Heuglin's Fan-tailed Whydah, consisting 

 mostly of out-of-plumage birds, was procured near Lake 

 Abbaya in January, and in Jimma in May, while two full 

 pluma^ed males were killed in Kambata, near Lake Lamina, 

 in September. Immature birds differ from the adults in 

 eclipse in having the lesser wing-coverts blackish, edged 

 with tawny-buff, instead of uniform orange-scarlet. The dark 

 streaks on the chest and sides of the breast seem to vary indi- 

 vidually, but are nearly absent in young birds. A specimen 

 from Jimma, with a wing-measurement of 73 mm., is labelled 

 " ? ?," and is no doubt correctly marked : it appears to be 

 assuming male characters, the black markings on the mantle 

 being very heavy as in the male, while the lesser wing- 

 coverts are largely mixed with orange. 



26. Pyromelana flammiceps craspedopterus. 



Ploceus crasjjedoplerus Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 446 

 (1850). 



Evplectes 2')yr7'hozona Heugl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 247. 



Pyromelana flammicej s petiti (Prev. & des Murs) ; Neu- 

 mann, J. f. O. 1905, p. 344. 



All the adult males procured by Zaphiro differ from 



