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buff on the chin, throat, breast and under tail-coverts; flanks slightly more 
ashy, with faint traces of narrow dark bars. ‘Iris and bill coral red; feet 
blackish”’ (Heuglin). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0:35, wing 1:8, tail 21, 
tarsus 0°55. 3, 31. 1. 83, Lado; ¢, 3. 7. 87, Tingasi (Emin). 
Heuglin’s Pale Waxbill ranges from the Gazelle River into 
Angola. 
Heuglin, who discovered the species, found it along the 
Gazelle River, on Req Island, in Bongo and Dembo, in 
February, March and April, in small flocks frequenting the 
high grass and reeds in marshy places. It is an active, noisy 
little bird, and its call-note is a low chirp. Specimens have 
been collected in Unyoro and Uganda by Dr. Ansorge and 
Dr. Stuhlmann; Mr. Jackson has procured three specimens 
from the expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains. 
Emin, who met with the species at Lado, and as far west as 
Tangasi in the Mombuttu country, informs us that it frequents 
the herbage along the banks of streams in parties of five or 
six, and has a pleasing soft song resembling that of 1. astrild. 
Cabanis refers a specimen in the Berlin Museum, obtained 
by Major Mechow at Malange, in Angola, November, 1879, to 
this species, and Mr. Pemberton obtained an example in that 
country at Balundu, August, 1901. 
Estrilda roseicrissa. 
Estrilda roseicrissa, Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, pp. 47, 218 Bukoba; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 407 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 184 (1904). 
Estrilda marwitzi, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 40 Uhele. 
Estrilda roseicrissa marwitzi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 184 (1904). 
Adult male. Upper half of the head, back and sides of the neck and the 
‘mantle brown, with a slight rufous shade and very indistinct narrow dark 
bars; rump, upper tail-coverts and edges of basal portion of tail-feathers 
crimson, remainder of tail brownish black; wing, with the coverts and edges 
of the quills like the back, remainder of quills dark brown, with whitish inner 
edges; under wing-coverts butf; sides of head grey, fading into butf on the 
