XXX TAILS AND WINGS AS NUPTIAL LIVERY 369 
playgrounds for themselves in the grass in which they 
dance up and clown, especially in the early morning and 
Jackson’s Whydad bird {Drepanoplectes jachsoni) in wooing-dress. 
In this plumage it may be described as a sparrow in widow’s 
weeds. 
late afternoon. In consequence of these tricks they 
have been called dancing birds. 
When these black objects are bobbing up and down 
B B 
