230 ESTRILDA ERYTHRONOTA 
and my late friend Du Chaillu, whose collection was not 
properly valued by the English nation, obtained a fine 
series at Cape Lopez as well as at the Camma and Muni 
Rivers. Marche and De Compitgne found it in the Ogowé 
district. 
Estrilda erythronota. 
Fringilla erythronotos, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 182 (1817) Caffraria. 
Estrilda erythronota, Gray and Mitch. Gen. B. ii. p. 368, pl. 90, fig. 1 
(1849); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 397 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. 
No. 410 (1896) ; Reichen. Vog. Afr. iti. p. 189 (1904) pt. S. Afr. 
Estrelda lipiniana, Smith, Rep. Exped. Centr. Afr. App. p. 49 (1836) 
Kurrichaine. 
Adults. Upper parts ashy grey, with a slight crimson shade on the 
mantle; lower back and upper tail-coverts crimson; entire tail black; 
hinder half of crown, back of neck, mantle and lesser wing-coverts with 
narrow blackish bars; remainder of wing-coverts and the inner secondaries 
of alternate wider bars of brownish-shaded black and white; outer quills 
dark brown, with indistinct bars on the basal half of the outer webs ; inner 
edges of quills and the under wing-coverts whitish ; eyebrow, sides of head 
and upper throat jet black; remainder of throat crimson-shaded grey, with 
narrow dusky bars; front and sides of breast crimson; centre of breast, 
abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts black. ‘Iris deep crimson; bill 
dark slate colour; legs black’’ (Oates). Total length 4:3 inches, culmen 
0:4, wing 2:1, tail 2:3, tarsus 0:55. 3g, 11. 11. 76, and 9, 14. 7. 66. 
Damaraland (Andersson). 
Vieillot’'s Black-faced Waxbill ranges over South Africa 
generally to the north of 28° S. lat. 
The species appears to be most abundant in German South- 
west Africa, for according to Andersson’s and Mr. Fleck’s 
notes, it occurs in large flocks in Damaraland, Great Nama- 
qualand, the Lake Ngami district and the Kalahari. In 
Bechuanaland Sir Andrew Smith found his #H. lipiniana 
inhabiting the country to the north and east of Kurrichaine, 
and this is the most southern range positively known for the 
