390 PLOCEIDiE. 



brown plumage ; the upper tail-coverts and tail dull crimson, a slight 

 tinge of the latter colour being apparent on the back and wing- 

 coverts, with a little stronger shade on the secondaries. 



Hah. Northern Australia from the north-M'est to Capo York and 

 to "Rockingham 13ay and Port Denison {E. P. li.). 



a-d. Ad. ; e,f. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



Juv. sk. 



g. Imm. sk. Port Essington {J. B. Jukes). Voy. H.M.S. ' Fly.' 



h-k. Ad. sk. Port Essington. Dr. Richardson [P.]. 



/. Ad. St. Port Essington. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



m-o. <S $ ad. sk. Cape York. 



p. Ad. st. Queensland. Mrs. Fitzgerald. 



q. Ad. st. N. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



41. ESTRILDA*. 



Type. 



Estrilda, Swains. Zool. Joiirn. iii. p. .349 (1827) E. astrilda. 



Habropyga, Cab. Arch. f. Natury. 1847, p. 3-31 {iiom. 



emend. ) E. astrilda. 



Urfeginthus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 171 (1850). ... E. phrenicotis. 



Mariposa, Reichenb. Shif/v. p. 48 (18G1) E. angolensis. 



Bruubilda, JReichenb. Singv. p. 48 (1861) E. erythrouota. 



Haplopyga, lleugl. Oni. N. O.-Afr., App. p. cxxxvii 



(1873) E. astrilda. 



Range. Confined to Africa and Arabia. Introduced into Mada- 

 gascar and the neighbouring islands, St. Helena, &e. 



* The following species are unknown to me : — 



ESTKILDA CAPISTRATA. 



Estrelda capistrata, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 259 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. .53, 

 no. 6736 (1870) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 330. 



Supra olivaceo-viridis ; capite, collo eorporeque subtus cinereis ; gulacircum- 

 scripte nigra; rostro nigro. Long, circa 4". {Huiilaub.) 



Hub. Bissao, Senegambia. 



But for the absence of the white face and the yellow of the flanks, tliis might 

 have been leferrcd to Vytelia sharpei. It may be the young bird of tliat 

 species. 



Estrilda vieidis. 



Bengali vert, Viei'l. Ois. Chant, p. 22, pi. 4(1805). 



Fi-ingilla viridis, Vieill. N. Diet, d'llist. Nat. xii. p. 180 (1817). 



Estrelda viridis, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 459 (1850); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 142 (1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 50, no. 6695 (1870) ; Shelley, 



Ibis. 1886, p. 335. 

 Asti'ilda viridis, Eeiehenb. Singv. p. 11, pi. ii. iig. 16 (1861). 



General colour olive-green; head ashy ; a red streak through the eye ; under- 

 neath white, shaded with pale reddish ; vent more distinctly red ; bill and feet 

 rerl. Total length 3| inches. (Hartlaiib.) 



Hah. Senegambia. 



