COCCOPYGIA QUARTINEA 237 
Adults. Similar to the female of C. dufresnei, from which it differs 
in having the centre of the breast and abdomen bright sulphur yellow and 
the under tail-coverts of a slightly more sandy shade. Iris red; upper 
mandible black, lower one red; feet black. Total length 4 inches, culmen 
0:35, wing 1:9, tail 1:6, tarsus, 0°55. g, 4. 1.99, Chelungo (Lovat), and 2, 
3. 1. 03, Adis Ababa (Pease). 
The Quartinea Waxbills inhabits North-east Africa. 
The possibility of this species having been met with in 
Senegambia rests on the very doubtful authority of M. Roche- 
brune, and upon the probability of his Hstielda savatiert being 
founded on a specimen of this Waxbill. Heuglin’s specimens 
came from Anseba, Tigré, Semien, Gonda and Wologalla, and 
finding that the sexes were alike in plumage he gave them the 
name Estrelda evnesti, under the impression that the sexes of 
C. quartinia (Bp.) differed in the same manner as in (. dufresnet 
(Vieill.). He found the species, paired or in flocks, generally 
distributed over Northern Abyssinia to nearly 17° N. lat., and 
breeding there in January, the nests containing from five to six 
white eggs. 
In Shoa Dr. Ragazzi found them frequenting the neigh- 
bourhood of dwellings. Two of his specimens were immature, 
and these are described by Count Salvadori as differing from 
the adults in their smaller size ; bill shorter and entirely black ; 
red on rump more confined and inclining to orange; tail 
shorter. He also remarks that the specimens show some 
variation both in size and colouring; in the females the red of 
the lower back is less extended and duller, and the yellow of 
the abdomen and under tail-coverts less bright. To the east- 
ward Lord Lovat found the species very abundant at Che- 
lunco in January, and Mr. Pease met with it on the hill-sides 
near Adis Ababa. It has also been recorded from Harar and 
Arussi Galla (Erlanger). 
