COCCOPYGIA DUFRESNEI 233 
This is all the information I can find regarding the species, 
but no doubt in its habits it resembles LH. erythronota as closely 
as it does in its plumage. 
Genus XII. COCCOPYGIA. 
Very similar to Hstrilda, but distinguished by the bill being broader ; 
upper mandible blackish, lower one, in adults, pale; culmen broader and 
flatter. Wing rounded, longer than tail; primaries 2 shorter than 6. Tail 
rounded and extending beyond the outstretched feet, graduation less than 
length of culmen. Entire lower back and upper tail-coverts red, no other 
red on the plumage. 
Type. 
Coccopygia, Reichenb. Singv. p.23(1861). . . . . . C. dufresnet. 
The genus is confined to Tropical and South Africa and comprises four 
species. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. Abdomen and under tail-coverts pale isabelline buff. 
a’, Sides of head and the upper throat black dufresnei, 3, ad. 
5 
b1, Sides of head grey, upper throat white . . . . dufresnei, ?. 22 
b, Centre of breast and abdomen yellow. 
cl, Sides of head andthe upper throat black. . . . bocagei, 3. % 7% 
d‘. Sides of head grey, upper throat white . . . . bocagei, 2. * 7¢ 
a2. Slightly paler; breast more sulphur yellow . . quartinia, 3, ?.2>26 
A 
b2, Slightly darker ; breast more rufous buff . . . kzlimensis 3, °. 
Coccopygia dufresnei. 
Fringilla dufresni, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 181 (1817). 
Coccopygia dufresnii, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 305 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 391 (1896). 
Hstrilda dufresnii, Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, p. 177 Pondoland. 
Neisna dufresnei, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 205 (1904). 
Fringilla erythronotos, Vieill. N. Dict. xii. p. 242 (1817). 
Fringilla melanotis, Temm. Pl. Col. iii. pl. 221, fig. 1 (1823). 
Estrilda melanogenys, Sundey. Cify. K. Vet. Ak. Forh. Stockh. 1850, 
p- 97 Natal. 
Estrelda neisna, Licht. Nomencl. p. 48 (1854) nom. nud. 
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