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The remiges are also black, edged externally with pale whitish brown. The bill varies 
much in coloration. In one male the bill is totally black; in another only the maxilla 
is black, the mandibula pale brownish; in a third male the bill'is pale horny brown. 
The females are considerably less in size than the males. 
[Iris brown; beak dark brown; legs and feet dark brown. 
Beak in the female lighter. Met with in flocks. Did not come across this species 
anywhere else during my stay in the country—W. J.] 
125. VipUA VERREAUXI, Cass. 
Vidua verreauxi, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Phil. p. 56 (1850, June) ; Finsch & Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 426. 
sphaénura (Verr.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 449 (1850, July). 
paradisea, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 77. no. 270; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 390. 
Steganura paradisea, var. australis, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 161; Brehm, Habesch, p. 217. 
no. 91. 
a. 5. Koomaylee. May 25 (no. 1522). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
gn yy gal 44m gil 
2 10 —_ 4 74 paradisea. Damaraland. 
An old male in full dress, having the collar on the nape ochre-fulvous, not cinna: 
momeous brown, as in the true V. paradisea, Linn. 
[This specimen was given to me as a skin by Capt. Street, A.F.F.; he obtained 
several of the birds about Koomaylee in March. I saw some of them in the flesh in 
his tent, but none alive. He spoke of them as frequenting carcasses, probably feeding 
on maggots. The sex I am not answerable for—W. J.] 
126. VipUA PRINCIPALIS (Linn. ). 
Vidua erythrorhyncha (Sws.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 77. no. 271; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 391. 
principalis, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 160; Brehm, Habesch, p. 217. no. 90; Finsch 
& Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 428. 
a. 3. Bejook. July 14 (no. 1816). 
6. 3. Bejook. July 16. 
c. 6. Bejook. July 18 (no. 1188). 
d. 3. Bejook. July 18 (no. 841). 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
git gu gi qi_yy" ol 4! git 
2 7 -2" 10" 6 6 -7 9 4 72... Angola. 
2 6 — 4 7... Gambia. 
2 9 4 7 4 74... Damaraland. 
All the specimens in Mr. Jesse’s collection are males in full dress, and have the base 
of the mentum (angulus mentalis) black, agreeing in that respect with specimens from 
the Gambia and from the Damara country (Andersson’s collection). Whether the white- 
