AMADINA FASCIATA 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. A crimson band across the throat. 
a1. Black lines on under parts submarginal . fasciata, 3. 
b1. Black lines on under parts forming edges 
tothefesthers. ....... . . marginals, 3. 
&. Emtireheadred |... . =. ~.. . . erythrocephala, 3. 
c. Noredonheadorneck. . ... . . . Females and young males. 
Amadina fasciata. 
Loxia fasciata, Gm. §. N. ii. p. 859 (1788). 
Amadina fasciata, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 197, pl. 15 (1837) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 289 (1890); Butler, Foreign Finches in Cap- 
tivity, p. 183, pl. 35 (1894); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 359 (1896) ; 
Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125 (1899) egg; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. 
p- 146 (1904). 
Fringilla detruncata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. pp. 25, 26 (1823) Senegambia. 
La Loxie fasciée, Vieill. Ois. Chant., p. 90, pl. 58 (1805). 
Adult male. Forehead, crown, back and sides of neck, back, wing- 
coverts, inner secondaries and the upper tail-coverts pale rufous brown, with 
subterminal angular black bars; remainder of wing more uniform brown, 
with the under coverts and inner margins of the quills rufous buff; tail 
dark brown, with white ends to all but the centre pair of feathers, increasing 
in size to the external ones, which have the outer web also white; a broad 
crimson band extends from the top of the ear-coverts across the throat ; 
remainder of the head, chin and throat white, somewhat mottled with 
brownish black ; lower throat and abdomen white, shading into rufous buff, 
with the centre of the chest cinnamon; the buff feathers of the front and 
sides of the breast crossed by angular black bars; under tail-coverts with 
large dusky blackish centres. ‘‘ Iris hazel; bill horny ; feet flesh colour.” 
Total length 5:1 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2°6, tail 1:7, tarsus 0:55. ¢, 
17. 12. 83. Redjaf (Emin). 
Adult female. Differs in having no red on the head or throat, which 
parts are more mottled with blackish bars on the feathers. Wing 26. ?, 
Bogos (Esler), 
Immature. Upper parts nearly uniform brown, with the black bars 
appearing on the scapulars and upper tail-coverts. West Africa. 
The,Common Ribbon-Waxbill ranges over Hastern Africa 
between 17° N. lat. and 15° S. lat., and crosses the continent 
into Senegambia and possibly the Congo region. 
