PL0CEIN7E. 
months. Grain, and especially millet, forms their principal 
these birds in the formation of their curiously woven nests. 
1. V. regia (Linn.) Cuv. PI. enl. 8. f. 1 , Vieill. Ois. Chant, 
t. 34, 35. 
2. V. principalis (Linn.) Cuv. Edwards’s Birds, pi. 270. 
Emberiza vidua Linn. Vieill. Ois. Chant, t. 36. ; E. serena Linn. 
PI. enl. 8. f. 2. ; Vidua erythrorhynclia Swains. B. of W. Afr 
pi. 12. 
3. V. superciliosa (Vieill.) Gal. des Ois. t. Cl. 
4. V. paradisea (Linn.) Cuv. PI. enl. 194., Vieill. Ois. Chant 
t. 87, 38. 
5. V. ardens (Bodd.) PI. enl. 647. - Emberiza signata Scop. 
Sonn. Voy. t. 75.; E. payanensis Gmel. ; Vidua rubritorques 
Swains. B. of W. Afr. p. 1 74. 
food. The cotton and down of certain plants are used by 
6‘. V. axillaris A. Smith, 111. S. Afr. Zool. pi. 17. 
7. V. macrocerca (Licht.) Brown, 111. pi. 1 l.—Coliuspasser 
flaviscapulatus Hupp. PI. enl. 183. f. 1. 
8. V. macroura (Gmel.). — Loxia longicauda Lath.; Fringilla 
flavoptera Vieill. Ois. Chant, t. 41.; F. chrysoptera VieiU.; 
Vidua chrysonota Swains. 
9. 1. laticauda (Licht.). — Coliuspasser torquatus Rupp. Faun 
t. So. f 2. 
10. V. lenocinia (Less.) Tv. d’Orn. 437. 
11. V. albonotata Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1848. p. 65. 
12. V. concolor Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1848. p. 66. 
Chera. 
Characters in common with Vidua : but the Wings long; with the first quill spurious ; the second, third, 
and fourth sl.ghtly graduated ; and the fifth and sixth nearly equal, but the fifth the longest. Tail 
and its coverts much lengthened, compressed, and arched. 
W *■— »e «n by 
are m general accompanied by about two males, whose gay plumage becomes sobered hteThot 
the winter months, and is resumed again on the return of summer The ZZ Z i n • S 
or more together, woven on the stems of reeds In f *1 ‘ a 30 ,uit 111 societies of thirty 
subfamily. ^ f ° m th ^ a K> roach those of the other species of this 
C. Progne (Bodd.) PI. enl. 635. 
Vidua phcenicoptera Swains. 
— Loxia 
caffra Gmel. ; 
Emberiza longicauda Gmel. Mill. Icon. 
t. iii. A., Vieill. Ois. Chant, t. 39, 40. ; 
March , 184 9. 
