AMADINA MARGINALIS 125 
Abyssinian coast to 17° N. lat. He found it in Kordofan and 
along the White Nile. In September they assemble with other 
Finches to feed in flocks and roost in the scattered trees. It 
breeds towards the end of August and beginning of September, 
and in habits and voice much resembles our Common Sparrow. 
Emin has procured the species at Lado and Redjaf, and 
Antinori found it in large flocks in the country of the Req 
Negroes. Mr. A. L. Butler informs me that he “met with 
it, on May 11, 1901, in large flocks at Doka, between Gedaref 
and Galabat, where they were drinking at the mud cattle- 
troughs by the wells. Capt. Dunn got it near El] Obeid in 
Kordofan.” 
Amadina marginalis. 
Amadina marginalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 290 (1890) W. Africa ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 360 (1896). 
Amadina fasciata, var marginalis, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p, 146 (1904). 
Adult male. Upper parts rufous shaded brown ; forehead, crown, back 
and sides of neck with black bars ; rump and upper tail-coverts buff, barred 
with black ; upper back and wings more uniform brown; lesser wing-coverts 
and scapulars with black terminal edges and a few other bars; greater 
coverts and the quills dark brown, shaded with rufous at their edges; under 
‘coverts and inner margins of quills rufous buff, tail dark brown, with 
white ends to all but the centre feathers, increasing in size to the external 
ones, which have the outer webs white; a broad crimson band from the top 
of the ear-coverts across the throat; cheeks, chin and upper throat white ; 
remainder of the under parts rufous buff, with black edges to the feathers, 
giving a scale-like appearance, except on the centre of the breast, which is 
uniform cinnamon shading into buff on the lower abdomen. Total length 
4-2 inches, culmen 0:45, wing 2°5, tail 1:5, tarsus 0°55. Type, West 
Africa (Pulham). “ 
Adult female. Differs in having the crown and mantle nearly uniform 
brown ; no crimson on the head and neck; sides of head and upper throat 
white, mottled with black bars; under surface of body paler and less 
strongly marked with the black edges to the feathers. Wing 2°6. West 
Africa (Sharpe Coll.). 
The Black-margined Ribbon-Waxbill inhabits West Africa, 
possibly the Congo district. 
