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ESTRILDA KANDTI 
Estrilda kandti. 
Estrilda kandti, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1902, p. 184 Kivw Lake ; id. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 188 (1904). 
Type. Upper half of head, wings and tail black; neck, back and 
scapulars sepia brown; upper tail-coverts red; under wing-coverts whitish ; 
cheeks white ; entire under parts pale sepia brown, with the abdomen paler 
and more isabelline; bill black; feet blackish brown. Total length 2°8 
inches, culmen 0:3, wing 1:6, tail 0:95, tarsus0°55. ¢ (?) Lake Kivu (Kandt). 
Female (?). Head, upper part of body and the wings sepia brown ; upper 
tail-coverts red ; entire under parts greyish brown. Bill dusky horn brown. 
Lake Kivu (Kandt). 
Kandt’s Black-crowned Waxbill inhabits Central Africa 
between the Albert Edward Nyanza and Lake Tanganyika. 
The species was discovered by Dr. Kandt at Lake Kivu to 
the north of Lake Tanganyika. The only two specimens 
known were not sexed, and probably represent the adult and 
immature plumages. 
Estrilda nonnula. 
Astrilda nonnula, Hartl. J. f. O. 1883, p. 485 Kudurma ; id. Zool. Jahrb. 
1887, p. 321, pl. 13. 
Estrilda nonnula, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 400 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 409 (1896); Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 188 (1904). 
Hypargus tenerrima, Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, pp. 213, 307 Stanley Falls. 
Adult male. Upper part of head black; hinder neck, mantle and inner 
half of the wing-coverts with alternate bars of black and grey ; lower back 
and upper tail-coverts glossy crimson-shaded scarlet; tail entirely black ; 
remainder of wings brownish black, with grey bars on the secondaries, and 
the under surface, with the axillaries and inner half of the coverts white, 
and inner edges of quills more ashy white; cheeks, ear-coverts and under 
parts white, shading into grey on the sides of the lower throat, and slightly 
tinted with grey on the sides of the body, vent and under tail-coverts ; flanks 
mostly rosy crimson ; outside of thighs blackish. ‘Iris brown; bill black, 
with a patch on each side of the culmen and the base of the lower mandible 
