41. ESTRILDA. 391 



Keij to tlie Species. 



a. With the upper tail-coverts brown, barred with 



blaclv and whitish cross-lines like the rump and [pp. 391, 393. 



back ; under tail-coverts black astrilda and allies, 



b. Upper tail-coverts black ; upper surface more or 



less barred ; under tail-coverts whitish 

 a' . Bill black ; vermiculations on back and flanks 



coarse riifibarba, p. 394. 



h' . Rill red ; vermiculations almost obsolete .... cinerea, p. 394. 



c. Upper tail-coverts crimson, 

 c'. Crown not black. 



a" . Chin and side of face whitish or ashy. 

 a'". Bill for the most part black ; a broad crim- 

 son streak through the eye ; wing-coverts 



washed with crimson rhodopyga, p. 396. 



//". Bill orange ; no red eye-streak ; no red 

 on wing-coverts ; " abdomen yellowish ; 



vmder tail-coverts white paludicola, p. 397. 



b" . Chin and sides of face black; upper surface 

 vinous ashy, with dusky cross-bars ; wings 

 plainly barred, 

 c'". Under tail-coverts black crylhronota, p. 397. 



,„, TT J i -1 i 1 •» I charmosina, p. 399. 



a . Under tail-coverts white < ■ ■ , '^ „„„ 



I nignmeidum, p. 399. 



d'. Head black ; back narrowly barred. 



c". Throat and breast dark grey ; under tail- 

 coverts black atricapilla, p. 399. 



d". Throat and breast white like the sides of 



the face ; under tail-coverts also white .... nonnida, p. 400. 



d. Upper tail-coverts verditer-blue. 



e'. Ear-coverts crimson phwnicotis, p. 400. 



/'. Ear-coverts blue (nie/olensis, p. 402. 



1. Estrilda astrilda*. 



The Waxbill, Edwards, Nat. Hist. B. iv. p. 179, pi. 179. fig. 2 (1 751) ; 



id. Gleanings, iii. p. 289, pi. 354. fig. 2 (1764). 

 Le Senegali rave, Briss. Oin. iii. p. 210, pi. x. fig. 5 (1760) ; Daubenf. 



n. Enl. iv. pi. 157. fig. 2 (bad) ; Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 101 



(1778). 

 Fringilla undulata, Pall. Adtimbr. p. 143. 

 Loxia astrild, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 303 (1766) ; Budd. Tabl. PL En!. 



p. 10 (1783); Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 852 (1788); Vieill. N Diet. 



cTHist. Nat. xii. p. 232 (1817). 

 Waxbill Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 152 (1783). 

 Astrild, Fieill. Ois. Chant, p. 35, pi. 12 (1805). 

 Fringilla astrild, Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 974 (1823) ; Kittl. Kvpf. 



Voy. Heft i. p. 7, Taf. 10. fig. 2 (1832). 

 Estrelda astrild, Stcains. Zool. Jonrn. iii. p. 349 (1827) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 368 (1849) ; Bp. Co77sp. i. p. 458 (1850); Striekl. S,- Scl. 



Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 150; Grill, Zool. Anteclm. pp. 10, 23 (1850) ; 



Newtoti, Ibis, 1861, p. 272 ; Gurney, Ibis, 18()2, pp. 31, 156 ; 



* Astrild seems to have been a misprint for astrilda, which might be restored 

 as lia\ing a more classical uppearance. Tbe generic name has been written 

 Estrilda, Estrelda, and Astrilda. I retain the name as written by Swainson. 



