20. AMADINA. 289 



1. Amadina fasciata. 



The Fasciated Grosbeak, Brown, III. Zool. p. 64, pi. xxvii. tit>-. 1 

 (1770) ; Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. i. p. 155 (1783). 



Loxia fasciata, Gm. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 859 (1788) ; Des Murs in Lefebvre's 

 Vol/. Abijss. p. 118 (1845). 



La Loxie fasciee, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 90, pi. 58 (1805). 



Coccothraustes fasciata, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 528 

 (1817). 



Fringilla detruiicata, Licht. Verz. Douhl. pp. 25, 26 (1823). 



Amadina fasciata, Swains. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 349 (1827) ; id. B. W, 

 Afr. i. p. ly7, pi. 15 (1837) ; Bes Murs in Lefebvre's Voy. Abyss, 

 p. 173(1845); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 369 (1841)); Bp. Consp. Av. 

 i. p. 454 (185U) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 140 (1857) ; Bolle, 

 J.f. 0. 1859, p; 43; lieiohenb. Sinyu. p. 34, Taf. 12. figs. 102-104 

 (1861); Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, 259; Heuyl. J.f. 0. 1862, p. 28; 

 Antin. Cat. descrr. Uce. p. 70 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 53, 

 no. 6741 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. B. Afr. p. 65 (1871); Antin. ^ 

 Salvad. Viayy. Boyos, -p. IIQ (1873): Fischer, Zeitschr. yes. Orn. 

 i. p. 323 (1884); Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p'. 313 ; id. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 30; 

 Salvad. Ami. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 179 (1884), vi. p. 283 (1888). 



Amadina detnmcata, liiipp. Neue Wirb., Voy. p. 101 (1835) ; id. Syst. 

 Uebers. p. 77 (1845). 



Sporothlastes fasciatus. Cab. Arch. f. Nat. 1847, p. 331 ; id. Mus. 

 Hein. i. p. 173 (1850) ; Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 596, App. p. cxxxv 

 (1871) ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 203 (1883) ; 

 Iteichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 71. 



FringiUa (Amadina) detruncata, Heuyl. Syst. Uebers. p. 40 (1850). 



Munia fasciata, Keidem. Onze Vcy. ii. pi. 54 (1873). 



Adult male. General colour above ruddy brown, numerously 

 crossed with black bars, the rump and upper tail-coverts paler, and 

 the latter white at the ends ; wing-coverts brown, the lesser ones 

 barred like the back, the median and greater series pale fawn- 

 colour at the ends with a subterniinal bar of black ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with ashy brown, 

 the inner secondaries spotted with fawn at the ends like the greater 

 coverts : tail-feathers blackish, the centre ones washed with grey 

 towards the base, the remainder tipped with white, and the outer 

 one white along the outer web ; head like the back, and barred in 

 the same manner ; feathers round the eye, cheeks, and throat 

 white, with a broad band of crimson reaching irom the ear-coverts 

 across the hinder cheeks and throat ; lower throat and remainder of 

 under surface pale fawn-colour, with narrow cross bars of triangular 

 shape ; in the centre of the breast a large patch of pale chestnut ; 

 lower abdomen and vent white ; under tail-coverts buffy white with 

 blackish bases ; under wing-coverts and axillaries uniform pale 

 fawn-colour : " bill imle lead-colour ; feet reddish ; iris umber- 

 brown " {Heuylin). Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-6, 

 tail 1*4, tarsus 0'6. 



The adult female, according to Heuglin, wants the crimson on the 

 throat, and also the chestnut spot on the abdomen. 



Hah. Senegambia across to North-eastern Africa, and south to 

 Masai-Land. 



