396 



4. Estrelda rhodopyga. 



Estrelda rhodopyga, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. lorh. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 126 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 50, no. GUO^ (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. 



^- Zool. Abyss, p. 408 (1870) ; Shelleij, Ibis, 1886, p. 333 ; Hartl. 



Zool. Juhrb. ii. p. 322 (1887) ; Shelh^/, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 32. 

 Estrelda rliodoptera, '• Siuidev.,'' Bp. C'07isp. i. p. 459 (1850, nee 



Sundev.). 

 Habropyf^a frenata, Cab. Mvs. Hem. Th. i. p. 169, note {ex Ehreiib. 



MSS'.in Mus. BervL); Hevcjl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 605 (1870).^ 

 Ilabropyga rliodoptera, Cab. 3Ins. Hein. Tb. i. p. 169, note (1850, 



e.r Bp.). 

 Estrelda etft-enata, Licht. Nomend. Av. p. 48 (1854) ; Hew/l. J. f. O. 



1868, p. 9. 

 Astrilda rhodoptera, Beichenb. Singv. p. 11 (1861, ex Bp.). 

 Astrilda frenata, Beichcnh. t. c. p. 11 (1861). 

 Estrelda leucotis, Heiiyl. J.f. O. 1862, p. 29. 

 Estrelda frenata, Heiiyl. J.f. O. 1868, p. 8. 

 Habropvga rhodopvga, Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 266 (1870) ; id. ^ 



Hart'l. Voy. Osiafr. p. 441 (1870); Seuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. 



App. p. cxxxvii (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, barred with 

 dusky ; the head more ashy and less distinctly barred ; upper tail- 

 coverts rosy .crimson ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, with ob- 

 solete dusky vermiculations ; median series ashy brown ; greater 

 coverts ashy brown, washed with crimson externally and forming a 

 broad crimson band, the inner secondaries also similarly washed 

 with crimson ; quills dusky brown, edged with ashy brown ; tail- 

 feathers dusky blackish, edged with crimson, the outer ones mar- 

 gined with whity brown : a crimson streak from the lores through the 

 eye, with a supraloral streak of ashy whitish ; cheeks, sides of face, 

 and throat white : remainder of under surfiice of body light tawny 

 brown, with narrow bars of hoary whitish on the sides of the fore 

 neck, breast, and flanks ; centre of breast and abdomen paler tawny 

 buff; thighs tawny buft'; under tail-coverts deep crimson, freckled 

 with tawny and blackish bars ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 tawny buff ; quills dusky below, pale fulvescent along the inner 

 web : " bill blackish, the tomium and base of the mandible red ; 

 feet dusky ; iris umber-brown " {Ernin Pasha). Total length 4-1 

 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 1-8, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 4-5 

 inches, culmen 0"4, wing 1'9, tail 1'8, tarsus 0*55. 



Young male. Similar to the adidts, but much duller as regards 

 the red on the wings and rump ; under tail-coverts tawny buff 

 washed with crimson : soft parts as in the adults : " iris reddish 

 umber '' (Emin). 



IJab. N.E. Africa from Senaar and Bogos-Land to Equatorial 

 Africa. 



a. .Tuv. sk. Nubia (Hedenbory). Sharpe Coll. 



b 2 iuv. sk. Zoulla, Abvssinia, Feb. 10. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



