343 
Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 
Videstrelda paradisea, Lafr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 185(4, 
p. 325. 
Steganura paradisea, var. australis, Heugl. Faun. Roth. 
Meeres, 1855, no. 161, fide Heugl. 1871. 
Steganura verreauxi, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 110. 
Vidua paradisea orientalis , Heugl. Orn. N.G.-Afr. 1871, 
p. 583. 
Hah. The whole of Africa south from about 17° N. lat., 
except in the extreme south, as Natal, Cape Colony, and 
Namaqualand. 
16. Coliuspasser. Type. 
1831. Oryx, Less, (nee Oken, 1816, Mam.) 
Traite, Orn. p. 437 . C. capensis. 
1837. Euplectes, Swains, (nee Euplectus, 
Leach, 1817) B. W. Afr. i. p. 180 C. capensis. 
1835-40. Coliuspasser , Rupp. Neue Wirb. 
p. 98, pi. 36. fig. 2. C. laticaudus. 
1847. Penthetria , Cab. Arch. Naturges. 
1847, p. 331. C. laticaudus. 
1849. Coliustruthus, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.- 
Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1849, p. 158 . C. laticaudus. 
1849. Chera, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 355 . . C. procne. 
1850. Orynx, Reichb. Syst. Nat. p. 76 . . C. capensis. 
1850. Xanthomelana, Bp. Consp. i. p. 447 . C. capensis. 
1850. Urobrachya , Bp. loc. cit. C. axillaris. 
1850. Pentheria, Bp. loc. cit. C. laticaudus. 
1861. Niobe, Reichb. Singvog. p. 61, pi. 26. 
figs. 219, 220 . C. ardens. 
Coliuspasser , although not a correctly classical name, can¬ 
not, I maintain, be superseded by Penthetria, proposed as an 
amendment more than seven years later. 
The present genus, as I have employed it, contains a very 
well-marked group of species with many striking characters 
in common, and not differing in any more essential points 
than in the length of the tail in adult males. This genus 
more nearly approaches Pyromelana than Vidua, the winter 
