Ploceidae of the Ethiopian Region. 335 



Hab. W. Afr., Senegambia. 



I have never seen a specimen^ and Lave therefore merely 

 entered the name in my " key to the genus/' According to 

 Vieillot's figure, /. c, it has the bill and feet red ; a red 

 band through the eyes as in E. astrild ; back, wings, and tail 

 olive; cheeks, throat, and entire underparts grey, washed 

 with very pale red, rather brighter toward the vent. 



M. Rochebrune records it from six localities in Sene- 

 gambia, but considers it rare. I can find no other instance 

 of its having been met with since Vieillot's time, 



Q7. EsTRELDA GRANATINA. 



Fringilla yranatina, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 819. 



Loxia yranatina, Daud. Traite Orn. ii. 1800, p. 446. 



Granadin, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 40, pis. 17 c?, 18 ? . 



Estrelda yranatina, Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. 1848, 

 p. 402. 



Estrelda {Granatina) yranatina, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 458. 



Urayinthus yranatinus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 1851, p. 171. 



Mariposa granatina, Reichb. Singvog. 1861, p. 7, pi. 1. 

 figs. 4, 5. 



Hab. S. Afr., from Matabele and the Transvaal to Damara 

 and Lake Ngami. 



This species has been recorded by Hartlaub (Orn. W.-Afr. 

 p. 144) from Angola {Henderson), and I have a note of a 

 specimen from Angola (Linnier) ; but according to Bocage 

 (Orn. Angola, p. 353) it is not known to him from either 

 Angola or Benguela. In E. Africa it appears to be en- 

 tii'cly replaced by Estrelda ianthinoyastra, and I suspect that 

 to that species belongs the Urceyinthus yranatinus, Roche- 

 brune (Faun. Senegamb. p. 255). As there is a large 

 trade with Senegal in cage-birds, this species may have 

 been naturalized there, but cannot, I think, ever have been 

 indigenous. 



68. Estrelda ianthinogastra. 



Urceyinthus yranatinus, Cab. (nee Linn.) J. f. O. 1878, 

 p. 229 ((^ or $ juv.), E. Afr.; ? Rochebrune, Faun. Sene- 

 gamb. 1881, p. 255, Gambia, Casamanse. 



