. The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region . h the sameshade of scarlet on the lesser wing-coverts, but differs in the bill beinglarger, and in full plumaged males the primary-coverts are mostly the type the greater series of wing-coverts are almost entirely length 65 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-4, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-0. Melinda(Kirk). The type of U. hildebrandti differs only in having the greater wing-coverts almost entirely black ; wing 335 inches. Mombasa (Etildebrandt). The type of U. nigronotata is intermediate between th
. The birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region . h the sameshade of scarlet on the lesser wing-coverts, but differs in the bill beinglarger, and in full plumaged males the primary-coverts are mostly the type the greater series of wing-coverts are almost entirely length 65 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-4, tail 2-7, tarsus 1-0. Melinda(Kirk). The type of U. hildebrandti differs only in having the greater wing-coverts almost entirely black ; wing 335 inches. Mombasa (Etildebrandt). The type of U. nigronotata is intermediate between the two last in thecolouring of the greater wing-coverts. Witu (Jackson). I cannot look upon these specimens as more than varieties of onespecies. The Zanzibar Fan-tailed Whydah inhabits Bast Africabetween 1° S. lat. and 10° S. lat. Owing to the absence, formerly, of any full plumagedexamples of U. phoenicea in the British Museum, Dr. Sharpe,in 1890, described one of the typical specimens of U. zanzi-barica as the adult male of U. phoenicea (Heugl.), and THE BIRDS OF AFRICA, S. af fini s. UROBRACHYA PHCENICEA 65 Dr. Beicbenow (Vog. Afr. iii. pp. 130-133), by following lead, bas confused the synonomy and distribution ofthese two species. I doubt if either of the smaller-billed allied forms (U. axil-laris and U. phoenicea) have been found in East Africa between10° and 1° S. lat. To the large-billed form, V. zanzibarica,certainly belong all Sir John Kirks specimens from Pangani,Usambara, Melinda and Lamu, also two specimens fromMombasa, one a typically coloured bird and the other the typeof U. hildebrandti, three of Bohndorffs from Mtoni, one ofJacksons from Witu (type of U. nigronotata), and a specimenprocured by him at Yonte in Jubaland, <?, ad. 1. 9. 02. All the other specimens I have seen of Mr. Jacksonscollecting belong to U. phoenicea, so that I think we may regard1° S. lat. as the boundary between U. zanzibarica and U. phos
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