236 COCCOPYGIA BOCAGEI 
Coccopygia bocagei. (Plate 33, fig. 1.) 
Coccopygia bocagei, Shelley, Bull. B. O. C. xiii. p. 56 (1903) Huwilla, 
Biballa. 
Neisna bocagei, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 206 (1904). 
Type, adult male. Forehead, crown and back of neck deep leaden grey ; 
mantle, wing-coverts and secondaries olive, with numerous well-marked, 
narrow dusky brown bars; rump and under tail-coverts crimson-shaded 
scarlet; primaries dark brown with narrow olive buff outer edges; tail- 
feathers black, with the outer webs of the side ones pale dusky brown, 
narrowly barred with blackish brown on the end half; lores, cheeks, ear- 
coverts, chin, and upper half of the throat jet black; front half of neck white, 
shading into pale ashy grey on the crop and front of the chest, and then 
into olive yellow down the flanks, and these coloured feathers have narrow 
dusky bars; centre of chest and the abdomen lemon yellow; under tail- 
coverts slightly paler. Iris red; upper mandible black, lower one red; tarsi 
and feet blackish. Total length 3:2 inches, culmen 0°35, wing 1°8, tail 1-3, 
tarsus 0°5. ¢, Huilla (Anchieta). 
Adult female. Differs in having the sides of the head grey like the crown, 
and the entire throat white. Wing 1:8. Biballa (Anchieta). 
Bocage’s Waxbill inhabits Mossamedes. 
The types, a male and female, were discovered by Anchieta 
at Huilla and Biballa, and through the kindness of my friend, 
Prof. Barbaza du Bocage, I have been enabled to describe and 
figure these specimens. 
Coccopygia quartinea. 
Estrelda quartinia, Bp. Consp. i. p. 461 (1850) Abyssinia. 
Coccopygia quartinia, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 307 (1890); Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 393 (1896). 
Neisna quartinia, Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 204 (1904). 
Fringilla (Estrelda) flaviventris, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 40 (1856 nom. 
nud.) Abyssinia. 
Estrelda ernesti II. Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 29 Keren. 
? Hstrilda savatieri, Rochbrune, Faun. Sénég. Ois, p. 252, pl. 21, fig. 1 
(1884) Senegambia. 
Coccopygia salvatieri (Japs. cal.) Shelley, B. Afr. I, No. 394 (1896). 
