UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



BULLETIN 223 



Plate 6. Fire Finch. 



Black-Winged combassou, 

 Waxbill 



and Orange-Breasted 



Upper: Nestling fire finch, Estrilda senegala (left), and black-winged combassou (right), 

 from nest of fire finch, Richard Toll, Senegal, November 1955; photo by G. Alorel. 

 Lower: Orange-breasted waxbill, Estrilda subflava, at an adopted and relined nest of a 

 red bishop bird, Euplectes orix — a step toward the parasitic habit, Matopos Mountains, 

 Southern Rhodesia; photo by D. C. H. Plowes. 



