306 PLOCEIDiE. 



Estrelda melanogeiivs, SuruJev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 97. 

 Estrelda ueisna, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1854). 

 C(5CCopygia dufresuii, Beichenh. Si?i(/v. p. 23, Taf. vi. fig's. 53, 54 



(18Gi). 

 Habropyga dufresuii, Hcik/L Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. ii. p. 008, note 



(1870). 

 Ortygospiza dufresnii, Butler, Feildcn, l^'- Rekl, Zool. 1882, p. 300. 



Adidt male. General colour above olive-yellow, with a slight wash 

 of crimson on the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts crimson ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, as also the inner secondaries, with a wash of 

 crimson on the latter as well as on the greater coverts ; bastard- 

 wing, primary- coverts, and primary-quills dusky, with ashj'-olive 

 margins ; tail-feathers black ; crown of head and hind neck pale 

 slaty grey ; lores, sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and upper throat 

 black ; lower throat, sides of neck, and fore neck pearly grey, in- 

 clining to white behind the car-coverts and extending on to the sides 

 of the breast ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 pale ochreous buff; sides of body, flanks, and thighs ashy brown ; 

 under wing-coverts ochreous buff; quills below dusky, ashy ochreous 

 along the inner edge : "upper mandible black, lower one scarlet; 

 feet very dark brown ; iris crimson " {T. Ayres). Total length 3'6 

 inches, culmeu 0-85, wing 1-8, tail 1-3, tarsus 0*55. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being paler and having 

 more vermilion on the rump and upper tail-coverts, and in wanting 

 the black mask on the face and throat, these parts being pearly 

 grey, becoming ashy grey on the breast. Total length 3-5 inches, 

 culmen 0'3o, wing 1-9, tail 1-35, tarsus 0-55. 



Hah. South Africa, from the Knj'sna to Natal, and the Transvaal 

 to the Zambesi. 



a. (S ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



b. d'ad. ; c. c5' juv. Knysna, Jan. {C.J. Anders- Shelley Coll. 

 sk. son). 



d,e. cJ 2 ad. ; Kuysna, Jan., March, April Sharpe Coll. 



f,g. j imm. sk. (G J. A.). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Grahamstowu ( T. C. At- Shelley Coll. 



more). 

 i. 5 ad. sk. Grahamstowu (T. C. A.). Sharpe Coll. 



k. S ad. sk. Natal ( T. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



I, m. (S ; ii. 2 ad. Natal, Jidy, Oct. Shelley Coll. 



sk. 

 0. 2 ad. sk. Piuetown, Natal, Oct. 1 ( T. Seebohm Coll. 



L. Ayres). 

 p. Ad. sk. rietermaritzburg (i?. A. Shellev Coll. 



Butler). 

 q J ad. fik. Lydenburg, E. Transvaal. F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



[P.]. 



