212 ESTRILDA MELPODA 
and the most northern range I can suggest for the species 
is Mount Kenia, where Lord Delamere shot an adult male 
at Msara on the north side of that mountain in February, 
1900, which agrees well with the type from Natal; but this 
may possibly be a specimen of S. subflava which has not 
assumed its full plumage, and if so, it is the only specimen in 
the British Museum, from north of the Equator, I could 
mistake for H. clarket. 
Estrilda melpoda. 
Fringilla melpoda, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 177 (1817). 
Estrilda melpoda, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 405 (1896); Reichen. J. f. O. 
1902, p. 37 Togo ; id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 186 (1904.) 
Sporeginthus melpoda, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 325 (1890); Butler, 
Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 104, pl. 21, figs, 1, 2 (1894). 
“ Fringilla lippa, Licht.” Bp. Consp. i. p. 460 (1850). 
Adults. Forehead and crown ashy grey; back of neck, mantle, wing- 
coverts and outer edges of the quills pale chocolate brown ; rump and upper 
tail-coverts crimson ; tail blackish brown, with whitish outer and terminal 
edges to the outer three pairs of feathers ; under surface of the wing brown, 
with the inner edges of the quills and the coverts tawny buff; sides of head 
orange, shaded with crimson on the sides of the forehead and in front of the 
eyes; cheeks, throat, breast, thighs and under tail-coverts ‘whitish ash, paler 
on the abdomen, which is partly washed with ochreous buff. “Iris light 
brown ; bill scarlet ; tarsi and feet deep horny ” (Forbes). Total length 3:7 
and 4:0 inches, culmen 0°35, wing 1°8 and 1:7, tail 1-6, tarsus 0°55. ¢, 2, 
11.11. 00. Kumassi (Alexander). 
Immature. Differs in the orange on the sides of the head being paler 
and less bright, and in the crimson being duller and more restricted to the 
upper tail-coverts ; chest, abdomen and under tail-coverts tawny buff, 
contrasting with the ashy white throat. ¢?, 30. 11. 00. Kintampo 
(Alexander). 
The Orange-cheeked Waxbill ranges from Senegambia into 
Angola. 
In the British Museum there is a specimen labelled 
“Senegal (Laglaise)”; Marche and De Compiégne collected 
