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Whydahs. 
This is another red-sliouldered species \ ery Hke U . axil- 
laris, which as a cage-bird is hardly known, and of which but 
Httle is as yet on record as to its wild life. Van Someren in the 
Ibis for 1916 reports them as being common in Uganda and 
British East Africa, where they breed in the tall rank grass of 
the swamps. The nest he describes (p. 417) as being' made of 
coarse grass lined with finer, and the eggs as greenish with 
brown and ash-coloured spots. 
Urobrachya iiigroiiotata. Sharpe. 1899. H.L. v. 413. 
A sub-species or local race of U. axillaris, which, however, 
both Shelley and Reichenow do not consider a separate species, 
but to be the same as U. hildebrandti. Its habitat is Witu in 
British East Africa. (H.L.). 
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TRAVERS'S FAN-TAILED WHYDAH. 
Urobrachya traversii. H.L. v. 413. 
Synonomy. 
Urobrachya traversii. Salvad. 1888, & Cat. 226. & Sh. iv. 67. 
U. phoenicca traversii. (Reich. 1904). 
Range. N. E. Africa (Abyssinia. Shoa). 
This species has the shoulder-patches more orange than 
scarlet, and thus is intermediate between the red-shouldered 
axillaris and phoenicca and the yellow-shouldered form of 
bucagci. 
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MECHOW'S FAN-TAILED WHYDAH. 
Urobrachya quanzae. H.L. v. 413. 
Synonomy. 
Urobrachya mcchoivi. Cab. 1881. & Sh. iv. 68. 
U . phoenicca quancac. Hartert. 1903.- 
Range. W. Africa (Coanza River, Angola). 
This Angola race resembles the preceding in its orange 
shoulder-patches. 
Urobrachya media. Sharpe . 1902. H.L. v. 413. 
Range. Equatorial Africa (W. Ankole). 
This race is included by Shelley in plioeiiicea. Of its 
