1 74 BROAD-SHAFTED WHIDAH-FIXCH 
■wide ; they are placed vertically, with, their outer 
surface very convex : the two middle feathers, on 
the contrary, have only three inches of their shaft 
very broadly wehbed ; it then ends in a slender 
hair of about three inches more. All the feathers 
are more or less vertical, so that the tail is altogether 
boat-shaped. The bill is black, and the feet brown. 
Total length, exclusive of the two pair of long 
feathers, 5f inches ; bill, T 4 3 ; wings, 3 ; lateral 
tail-feathers, 2| ; tarsus, ; hinder toe and claw 
equal with the lateral ones ; hinder claw as long as 
its toe. 
CRIMSON-COLLARED WIIIDAH. 
Vidua rubritorques, Swains. 
Glossy black ; a crimson collar round the front of the neck ; 
six of the tail-feathers very elongated. 
More than fifteen years ago we saw a specimen of 
this very lovely species in a collection of birds sent 
from the interior of Southern Africa, nor did we 
again meet with it uhtil the Senegal specimen now 
before us came into our possession. It seems to 
have been passed over as the Vidua Panaycnsis of 
the East Indies, from which however it differs in 
having a red gorget on the upper part of the breast, 
instead of a spot of red in the middle of the body ; 
