762 REPORT OF THE HARVARD AFRICAN EXPEDITION 
Budytes flava thunbergi (Billberg) 
Motacilla thunbergi Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae, tom. i, pt. 2, Aves, 1828: Sweden. 
Male, Bumba, 30 December 1926. 
This specimen agrees with other examples of thunbergi in the Museum of 
Comparative Zodlogy in that it lacks the superciliary stripes of typical flava. 
There are, however, a very few small whitish feathers behind the eyes. 
Budytes flava flava is undoubtedly the commonest of the races of this wagtail 
that visit the Congo, but there is no basis for the belief that thunbergi is unusual 
in that country. The latter has been reported from Mazanguli, upper Lualaba 
Valley by Neave (Ibis, 1910, p. 237); from Baraka and Irumu, Ituri district, 
by Sassi (Ann. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xxxviii, p. 40); and is mentioned 
as seen alive near Bolobo by Schouteden (Rev. Zool. Africaine, xii, no. 1, 1925, 
p. 13). Dr. Chapin writes me that he has one male from Ibambi, near Medje, 
taken 12 April 1910, and another collected by Father Callewaert at Luluabourg, 
Kasai district, 14 January 1926. 
Judging by the Bolobo record, it might be expected that this bird migrates 
across the upper Congo, — an expectation that is more or less corroborated by 
the present specimen. As far as I know, this bird has not hitherto been recorded 
from the true forest area of the Congo Basin, but Dr. J. Bequaert informs me 
that there is a large clearing at Bumba, which may account for the presence of 
this bird at that place. 
Ploceidae 
Passer griseus ugandae Reichenow 
Passer diffusus ugandae Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb., 1899, p. 110: Uganda. 
Male, Efandu, 5 January 1927. 
Female, Lulenga, 1 March 1927. 
The female specimen has the underparts washed with sandy buff. It agrees 
with others from Masindi, Uganda, and Ruchuru, Belgian Congo, in the collec- 
tions of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The male has the crown and 
nape slightly more grayish, less brownish, than the female, and is interesting in 
that Gyldenstolpe records zedlitzi from the Semliki valley. This race (type 
locality Benguella Town, Angola) is said to be more grayish on the crown than 
ugandae, and, therefore, more or less like the present male from Efandu. How- 
ever, a specimen from Angola (Boulton coll.) in the American Museum of Natural 
History does not agree with the characters of zedlitzi. Even if this form were 
valid, which it apparently is not, Gyldenstolpe’s Semliki bird could hardly be 
anything but a grayish specimen of ugandae, probably similar to the present one. 
Vidua macroura (Vroeg) 
Fringilla macroura Pallas, in Vroeg’s Catal., 1764, Adumbrat., p. 3, “East Indies”; error; should 
be Africa. 
Three males and one female, Kwamouth, 13 December 1926. 
One female, Bumba, 30 December 1926. 
One male, Kamaniola, 1 February 1927. 
