218 ESTRILDA CRULESCENS 
pale, and, as Count Salvadori has already remarked, the fore- 
chest is a little too bright. 
Estrilda cerulescens. 
Fringilla cxrulescens, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 176 (1817). 
Estrilda czrulescens, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 413 (1896); Reichen, Vog. 
Afr, iii. p. 193 (1904). 
Lagonosticta cerulescens, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 284 (1890) Sene- 
gambia ; Butler, Foreign Finches in Captivity, p. 118, pl. 23 (1894) ; 
Nehrkorn, Kat. Hiers. p. 125 (1899) egq. 
Habropyga fimbriata, Reichenb. Singy. pp. 12, 49, pl. 2, figs. 14, 15; 
pl. 18, figs. 165, 166 (1863). 
Adult. General plumage lavender grey, with the lower back and upper 
tail-coverts bright crimson, and the upper surface of the tail strongly washed 
with that colour; the grey becomes whiter on the forehead, sides of head, 
chin and upper throat, and is strongly shaded with black down the centre of 
the breast and on the abdomen; a small black streak through the eye. 
“Tris brown; bill black, with a tinge of red on sides of upper mandible 
and base of lower one; feet dusky grey.’ Total length 3:5 inches, culmen 
0-4, wing 2:0, tail 1-6, tarsus 0°55. g , Senegambia (Verreaux). 
The Senegal Lavender Waxbill inhabits Senegambia and 
ranges eastward to Gambaga. 
The information from field naturalists sqaantane the mem- 
bers of this little group of Lavender Waxbills is slight, but 
what is known regarding H. incan no doubt would apply 
equally well to all the species, excepting, of course, the 
country and breeding season; the latter depending upon the 
climate. All Finches and most other small birds time their 
breeding season so that their young may benefit by the 
greatest supply of insect food. The present species lays white 
eggs, which measure 0°62 X 0°46, and probably four to six in 
a clutch. 
Laglaise procured the species near St. Louis, at the mouth 
of the Senegal River; Marche and De Compiégne obtained 
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