41. ESTRILDJ. 395 



Fringilla troglodytes, Licht. Verz. Douhl. p. 26 (182.M) ; Antht. Cut. 



descrr. Ucc. p. 71 (18134) ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. I'oriiio, v. p. 741 



(1870). 

 Estrelda cinerea, RUpp. Neue Wirh., Vor/. p. 101 (1835-40) ; id. Si/st. 



Uebers. p. 77 (1845) ; Grat/, Gen. B. li. p. 309 (1849) ; Bp. Cunsp. 



Av. i. p. 459 (1850) ; Ileia/I. Si/st. Uebers. p. 40 (1850) ; Hartl. 



Oni. W.-Afr. p. 141 (1857" ) ; Heugl. J. f. O. 1838, p. 0; Gmi/, 



Huud-l. B. ii. p. 50, no. 6690 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 05 



(1871); Hartl. AbhaiuU. nat. Vereiii. Bremen, Ba;id vii. p. 103 



(1881); Forbes, Ibis, 1881, pp. 524, 530; Shelley, t. c. p. 555; 



id. Ibis, 1880, p. 333; id. P. Z. S. 1838, p. 32. 

 Estrelda troglodytes, Bp. Con.sp. Av. i. p. 459 (1850). 

 Habropvga cinerea. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 109 (1850); Heuyl. Orn. 



A. O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 600, iv. App. p. c.\xxvi (1871) ; Mutschie, 



J.f. 0.' 1887, p. 154. 

 Astrilda cinerea, Rtichenh. Sim/v. p. 9, pi. ii. figs. 10, 11 (1801). 

 Astrikla nigricauda, Reiehenb. Siiu/v. p. 10, pi. vi. figs. 55, 56. 

 Estrelda melanopygia, Ileuf/l. J. f. O. 1804, p. 251. 

 ^gintha cinerea, Russ, Stubenv. p. 33, Taf. i. tig. 1 (1S79). 



Adult female. General colour above drab-brown, faintly barred 

 with dusky cross lines; wing-coverts nearly uniform ashy brosvn, 

 the margins slightly paler ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 light brown, margined with ashy brown ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail feathers black, with whitish borders to the outer webs of the 

 two outermost feathers ; crown of head almost uniform, a little more 

 ashy than the back, the dusky cross lines almost obsolete ; lores, 

 eyelid, and a streak above the ear-coverts crimson ; ear-coverts pale 

 ashy, hoary below the eyes and on the fore part of the cheeks, 

 which are otherwise pale rosy lilac, the throat and under surface of 

 body with scarcely any cross lines ; abdomen isabelline, with a 

 rosj' patch in the middle : sides of body and flanks pale drab-brown, 

 with nearly obsolete dusky cross lines : thighs pale brown : under 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts isabelline ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy isabelline on the inner edge. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 0-;35, wing 1-9, tail l-oo, tarsus O'o. 



The riilult male is doubtless similar to the female, but probably 

 brighter in colour. 



Young male. Browner than the adults and without wavy cross 

 lines ; bill blackish ; no crimson eye-streak ; under surface of body 

 isabelline brown, the throat slightly more ashy. 



Hah. Seiiegambia to the Kiver Niger, across to North-eastern 

 Africa and Equatorial Africa, south to the Tanganyika district. 



a~c. Ad. sk. Senegambia. Sharpe Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Shelley Cull. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Dakar, Senegal (Z. Laqlatze). Tweeddale Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Peukera, Fautee {II. f. Vssher). Shellev Coll. 

 'g-i. $ ad. sk. Shonga, River Niger(J7'".^.P.). Forbes Coll. 

 'k. Ad. sk. White Nile. Sharpe Coll, 

 /, m. $ ad. sk. Lado, Equatorial Africa, May Shelley Coll. 



(Bmin Puxha). 

 n. $ ad. sk. Redjaf, July (Emin Pasha). Shelley Coll. 



o, p. d $ imm. sk. "NVadelai, Aug. 3. Emin Pasha TP."'. 



