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and observed that there was a specimen of it in the Berlin 
Museum labelled ‘“‘ Nubia.” Dr. Blandford saw the species in 
flocks at Zoulla, and it has been procured by Mr. Jesse at 
Bejook. 
Estrilda subflava. 
Fringilla subflaya, Vieill. N. Dict. xxx. p. 575 (1819) Senegal. 
Estrilda subflava, Shelley, B. Afr. I. p. 404 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iil. 
p. 186 (1904). 
Sporeginthus subflavus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 324 (1890) ; Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 107, pl. 21, fig. 3 (1894) ; Nehrkorn, 
Kat. Hiers. p. 126 (1899) egg. 
Fringilla sanguinolenta, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pl. 221, fig. 2 (1823). 
Pytelia mitchelli, Reichenb. Singv. p. 24, pl. 18, figs. 161, 162 (1863). 
Sporeginthus miniatus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 167 Gazelle R. 
Estrilda subflava orientalis, Heugl. J. f. O. 1868, p. 11 N. H. Afr. 
Adult male. Upper parts brown, with a slight olive shade; rump and 
upper tail-coverts scarlet-shaded crimson; tail dark brown, with the outer 
web, viewed from beneath, whitish and a white terminal margin to the next 
feather ; under wing-coverts and inner edges of quills whitish; a deep 
crimson eyebrow from the nostril to above the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts 
brown of the same shade as the sides and back of the neck; cheeks and 
under parts yellow, with the sides of the body barred with ashy olive and 
pale yellow; abdomen and under tail-coverts reddish orange, with which 
colour the lower throat and breast is strongly shaded. ‘Iris red ; bill 
scarlet, with the culmen and keel black ; feet flesh colour.” Total length 
3:8 inches, culmen 0°3, wing 1-7, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-45. g, 1.12. 82. Lado 
(Emin). 
Adult female. Differs in having no red band on the side of the head ; 
less red on the rump and upper tail-coverts; under parts paler buff, slightly 
shaded with orange down the centre of the breast. ‘‘ Iris crimson ; bill as 
in the male; feet flesh colour.” Wing1:7. ?, 6.5.01. Kaka (Hawker). 
The Northern Zebra Waxbill ranges over North Tropical 
Africa between about 16° N. lat. and the Equator. 
In its most northern known range, St. Louis, at the mouth 
of the Senegal River, Laglaise procured a specimen which 
is now in the British Museum. It has also been recorded from 
