72 
Whydahs. 
LAKE CHAD COMBASOU. 
H. iicumanni. Boyd Alex. 1908. H.L. v. 437. 
Range. C. Africa (Lake Chad). 
0 
RHODESIAN COMBASOU. 
H. codringtuni. Neave. 1907. 
Plate. Neave. Mem. & Proc. Manch. Lit. & Phil. Soc. 
51. 1907. 
Range. N. E. Rhodesia. 
These three are local races of the Common Combasou, 
which have been recently described and separated. 
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BROWN-WINGED COMBASOU. 
Hypoclicra aniaiirupicryx. H.L. v. 437. 
Synononiy. 
I 
Steel-coloured Widow-finch. Steel Finch. 
II 
Hypochaera nitens (nee Cm). Kirk 1864. Amadina nitcns 
(Layard. 1867). 
H. iihraniarina (nec. Gm) Gurney. i860. & ? Reichenbach. 
Simgvogel. 
H . ultramarina oricntalis (Reich. 1894). 
H. chalybeata (nec Mull.) Barratt. 1876. 
H . amaiiropteryx. Sharpe. Cat. xiii. 308. 1890. 
Hypochera aniauropteryx. Sh. iv. 12. 
H . funerea aniauroptera. (Stark. 1900). 
References. Singv. 54. Plate. 22. B.S.A. i. 154. Sh. 
iv. 12. Butler, i. 186. 
Range. E. & S. Africa (Equatorial Africa to the Zam- 
besi). Damara Land to the Congo. 
This, the first of Shelley's southern group, is disting- 
uished from the other Combasous with light brown wings ete., 
by the steel green gloss on the black. 
