202 ESTRILDA RUBRIVENTRIS 
Dr. Ragazzi obtained five specimens in Shoa, and it is, 
according to Heuglin, a summer visitor in its northern range, 
as he met with it from May to October only in Southern 
Nubia, Sennar, Abyssinia, and along the White Nile, generally 
scattered over the country up to 7,000 feet, in small or large 
flocks. 
Estrilda rubriventris. 
Fringilla rubriventris, Vieill. Enc. Méth. iii. p. 992 (1823). 
Kstrilda rubriventris, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 393 (1890). 
Kstrilda rufiventris (laps. cal.), Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 400 (1896). 
Estrilda astrild angolensis, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1902, p. 173 Angola ; 
id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 180 (1904). 
L’Astrild & ventre rouge, Vieill. Ois. Chant. p. 36, pl. 13 (1805) Cage- 
bird. 
Differs from #. occidentalis in having the mantle, upper tail-coverts, 
edges of tail-feathers and most of the under parts washed with rosy carmine. 
Wing 1:8. Gaboon (Verreaux). 
The Loango Waxbill ranges from Gaboon into Angola. 
The species is known to me by six specimens only ; these 
are in the British Museum; from Gaboon (Du Chaillu), Lan- 
dana (Lucan and Petit) and Quindumbo (Burton); of these, 
the specimens from Landana are the most strongly marked. 
The species, as I understand it, is apparently limited in range 
to a comparatively small area, and is surrounded to the north, 
east and south by H. occidentalis, so, as I have not seen the 
specimens from Melanje (Mechow) I hesitate to refer them to 
the present species, for I find I differ from Dr. Reichenow 
with regard to the range of this Waxbill, and I cannot agree 
with him in rejecting the name Fringilla rubriventris, Vieill., 
for this species ; the type was a cage-bird figured a L’ Astrild a 
ventre rouge, and that figure fairly represents the present, 
and no other species. 
