194 ESTRILDA ASTRILD 
p*. Slightly darker ; grey of neck not inclining 
to white next to the black ear-coverts ; dark 
and pale bars on wings contrasting less 
strongly,” cee eres s eet ae 
q®. Slightly paler and pinker; grey of neck 
fading into a whitish margin next to the 
black ear-coverts; bars on wings black and 
and white more sharply contrasting . . . delamerei. 2 7} 
s>. Breast more uniform rosy buff with no black 
on abdomen, thighs, nor under tail-coverts ; a 
more distinct whitish band margins the black 
ear-coverts; throat rosy white with only a 
erythronota. 
few black feathers on the chin. . . . . . charmosyna. 2 
Estrilda astrild. 
Loxia astrild, Linn. 8. N. (x.) p. 173 (1858) ; id. (xii.) i. p. 303 (1766). 
Estrilda astrild, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 391 (1890); Butler, Foreign 
Finches in Captivity, p. 134, pl. 26, fig. 2 (1894); Ridgway, Proc. 
U.S. Mus. 1895, p. 518, Amirante Isl. ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 399 
(1896) ; Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 128 (1899) egg; Whitehead, Ibis, 
1903, p. 224 Orange R. ; Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 177 Pondoland ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 178 (1904); Clarke, Ibis, 1904, p. 524. 
Natal. 
Subspecies a. 
Kstrilda cavendishi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1900, p. 110 Mapicuti. 
Kstrilda astrild cavendishi, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 179 (1904). 
Subspecies b. 
Estrila astrild damarensis, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1902, p. 173; id. Vég. 
Afr. iii. p. 180 (1904) Namaqua to Mossamedes. 
Subspecies c. 
Kstrilda sanctee-helenze, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 74 (1903) St. 
Helena. 
Kstrilda astrild sancte-helene, Reichen. Vég. Afr. iii. p. 179 (1904). 
Adult male. Forehead, crown and back of neck ashy brown, shading into 
sandy brown on the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts, 
the whole, with the exception of the front half of the crown, crossed 
with numerous narrow blackish bars; quills and tail dark brown, with very 
narrow pale edges to the feathers, and some obscure bars showing mostly on 
the inner secondaries and centre tail-feathers; sides of the head with a 
sharply defined band of vermilion from the base of the bill, between the 
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