NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA 



Red-headed Weaver Finch. 



(^Amadina erythrocephala.) 

 Diet. — Grass and weed seeds, also small insects. 



Red-billed Weaver. 



[Quelea quelea.) 

 Diet. — Seeds of grasses, weeds, and grain, also insects. 



Bishop Birds. 



Grenadier, Red Kafir Fink, Taha Bishop Bird, 



Yellow Kafir Fink. 



(Genus — Pyromelana.) 



Diet. — Grass and weed seeds, also insects. 



Bishop birds collect in flocks in the autumn and, in associa- 

 tion with weavers and widow birds, attack and feed on the 

 ripening wheat and millet. 



Widow Birds and Widow Finches. 



Flop or Entaka, Kafir Fink or Isa-Kabuli, 



Koning-Roodebec. 



(Genera — IJrohrachya^ Coliopasser^ and Vidua.) 



Diet. — The widow birds, of which there are several species, 

 feed during the spring and summer largely on insect food from 

 the veld, supplemented by seeds of grasses and weeds. In the 

 autumn and winter some of the species assemble in flocks and 

 attack millet and other grain crops. They and the bishop birds, 

 as well as the weavers, are commonly termed " finks " in 

 Natal and " vinks " elsewhere. 



South African Rock Sparrow. 



(Genus — Fetronia petronella. ) 



Diet. — This sparrow feeds principally on beetles and other 

 insects which it finds on the stems and branches of trees and 



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