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behind the eyes ; uppermost portion of the throat as well as the chin white. 
“Tris hazel; bill bright crimson; tarsi and feet pale fleshy brown.” Total 
length 3:6 inches, culmen 0°35, wing 2°2, tail, 1-1, tarsus 06. ¢, 20. 4. 77. 
Potchefstroom (T. Ayres). 
Adult female. Differs in the cheeks and dark portion of the throat being 
brownish ash, like the sides of the neck. Wing 21. 92,17. 7.75. Pine- 
town (T. L. Ayres). 
Temminck’s Bar-breasted Mannikin ranges from Angola 
and Abyssinia, southward into Cape Colony. 
The species is rare in Western Africa, but 'Toulson obtained 
a specimen at Loanda, in Angola, and Welwitsch met with it 
at Galungo Alto. In Damaraland Mr. Fleck found it singly, 
or in pairs, in the neighbourhood of Barmen. 
Stark writes: “It is fairly common in the north-east of 
Cape Colony, in the neighbourhood of Colesberg and Eland’s 
Post. In the Orange River Colony and in the higher part 
of Natal it is resident and common all the year round; it is 
rather more local, but still a common species, in many parts 
of the Transvaal, but becomes rarer to the north of the 
Limpopo River, in Matabeleland and Mashonaland. 
“These pretty little birds are usually met with in small 
flocks, but occasionally in single pairs, on the open, grassy 
flats. Here they feed on the ground, under the grass, 
on the fallen seeds. If disturbed, they rise suddenly, with 
a curious metallic chirp, fly a short distance and settle again 
directly on the ground, without first perching on bushes or 
weeds. As a rule their flight is rapid and direct, but they 
sometimes rise, with their usual sharp cry, aud fall again on 
the spot from which they rose. Mr. T. Ayres gives the 
following account of the nest, found near Potchefstroom, on 
April 30, in the “Ibis” for 1878, p. 297: ‘ This pretty little 
fellow I shot as he rose from the nest, where he had evidently 
been doing duty for his wife, by sitting on the eggs in her 
absence. The nest was a very rough structure, placed on 
