224 ESTRILDA VINACEA 
in the open country of Wau, Djur and Bongo, apparently 
resident, but rarely met with in summer. In their habits they 
were shy, and on the least alarm quickly disappeared in the 
standing corn. In May the song of the male was loud and 
clear. 
Estrilda vinacea. (PI. 32. fig. 2.) 
Estrelda vinacea, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 143 (1857) Casamanse ; Reichen, 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 191 (1904). 
Lagonosticta vinacea, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 286 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 433 (1860). 
Adults. Forehead and crown leaden grey, with a few feathers next to the 
nostrils black, like the entire sides of the head, chin, and upper half of the 
throat; remainder of the plumage mostly vinous pink, darker and inclining 
to crimson on the upper tail-coverts and outer edges of the tail-feathers ; 
remainder of tail dusky black; primary coverts, primaries, and inner webs 
of the secondaries dark brown; lining of wing more dusky, and whitish on 
the inner edges of the quills and the coverts; lower neck and breast vinous 
pink, tinted with the grey of the basal portion of the feathers, and shading 
into dusky black on the centre of the abdomen, the thighs and under tail- 
coverts; sides of breast, with minute white spots. Iris brown; bill and feet 
grey. Total length 3:9 inches, culmen 0:4, wing 1°85, tail 1:6, tarsus 0°7. 
g, 17.11.00. Cage-bird (Hopkinson). 
Immature. Forehead and crown ashy brown; back, wings and tail as 
in the adult ; sides of head ashy brown, shading into isabelline on the chin 
and upper half of the throat; remainder of the under parts tinted with 
isabelline, and the centre of the abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts more 
rosy. ¢ and ?, Senegal. 
The Vinous Black-faced Waxbill inhabits Senegambia. 
The species has been recorded only from Bissao (Leunier) 
and from Casamanse (Verreaux), and it is represented in 
the British Museum by three males and a female, all of which 
were cage-birds. I have figured the species in the hope that it 
may draw the attention of field naturalists to this very pretty 
and interesting species, of which we know so little. The small 
white spots on the sides of the breast is a very unusual 
