234 COCCOPYGIA DUFRESNEI 
Adult male. Forehead, crown and back of neck leaden grey ; mantle 
olive tinted yellow, slightly mottled with scarlet, and narrow, nearly 
obsolete, dusky bars to the feathers; lower back and upper tail-coverts 
scarlet ; wing dusky brown, the feathers of the inner half edged with the 
same colour as the mantle, the edges of the other feathers narrower and 
inclining to brownish buff; inner lining of the wing, with the axillaries and 
coverts isabelline ; tail blackish, inclining to dusky on the outer feathers, 
which have their end quarter whitish; sides of head below the eye, ear- 
coverts, chin and upper throat black, surrounded towards the throat with 
white, shading into grey on the sides of the neck, the crop and flanks ; 
remainder of the breast and the under tail-coverts isabelline buff. ‘‘ Iris 
bright red ; bill, upper mandible black, lower one bright crimson ; tarsi and 
feet dusky black” (T. Ayres). Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 0:3, wing 1'8, 
tail 1:5, tarsus 0-4. ¢, 10.78. Durban (Gordge). 
Adult female. Differs from the last in having no black on the head, the 
sides of the head being grey like the crown and fading into white on the 
chin, upper and middle throat. Total length 3-7 inches, wing 1:9, tail 1:5. 
9, 16.7. 74.  Botha’s Hill (T. L. Ayres). 
Dufresne’s Waxbill is confined to South Africa, where it 
ranges from Cape Colony to the Zambesi. 
Its distribution is, as Stark observes, Eastern South 
Africa, occurring as far west as the George District, and at 
Heidelbere and Swellendam in Western Cape Colony, 
becoming more abundant to the east of Port Elizabeth and 
Grahamstown. In Natal and the Transvaal it is a resident. 
I cannot trace its range further north than the Zambesi, where 
Serpo Pinto procured the female specimen described by Prof. 
Bocage in his ‘Ornithologie d’Angola.” The species was 
included in that work solely upon the authority of Brown’s 
* Nouvelles illustrations de Zoologie” (1776). 
Layard wrote: “ Heidelberg, Swellendam, and the Kugela 
are the only places whence we have received this pretty 
species in the western province. Mr. Atmore says that it is 
common at George, wherever there is cultivation ; it is restless 
in its habits and migratory, appearing in autumn. Mr. 
Rickard records it from Uitenhage and Hast London, and it 
