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b. Iris brown; upper mandible black, lower dusky; legs 
black. 
c. Iris brown; bill dark ; legs brown. 
Specimen c, apparently a female, resembles a and b ; but 
the primaries &c. are browner, edged with pale whitish, and 
the tail is much shorter (2*7 inches). 
[This Long-tailed Weaver is always to be seen in company 
with Penthetriopsis macro cere a or Urobrachya tracer si. 
The male bird apparently does not get the long tail-feathers 
till the second year’s plumage.—L.] 
15. Penthetriopsis macrocerca. 
Penthetriopsis macrocerca (Licht.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. xiii. p. 223 (1890). 
a. S imm. Baroma, Abyssinia, 11 January, 1899. 
(No. 153.) 
b. $ . Baroma, Abyssinia, 11 January, 1899. (No. 157.) 
c. S • Philwaha, Abyssinia, 16 February, 1899. 
(No. 315.) 
a. Upper mandible reddish brown, lower lighter; legs 
brown. 
b. Upper mandible black, lower steel-blue; legs black. 
c. Iris brown ; bill dark ; legs dark. 
Specimen a shows no traces of yellow shoulder-patches. 
[This bird is found in flocks with Penthetria laticauda ; 
but, though it occupies similar ground to Urobrachya traversi , 
it was never seen in company with that bird. I believe this 
bird alters its coloration very much in the rainy season, the 
wing- and tail-feathers becoming at that time almost wholly 
black.—L.] 
16. Urobrachya traversi. 
Urobrachya traversii Salvad.; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiii. p. 226 (1890). 
a, b, c. $ $ $ . Lekamte, Abyssinia, 16 March, 1899. 
(Nos. 426, 427, 428.) 
Iris brown ; bill dusky ; legs brown. 
Specimen a is a male in the brown plumage, but with 
the orange shoulder-patch well developed ; b and c are 
