238 COCCOPYGIA KILIMENSIS 
Coccopygia kilimensis. 
Coccopygia kilimensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 307 (1890) ; Shelley, 
B. Afr. I. No. 392 (1896). 
Neisna kilimensis, Reichen. V6g. Afr. iii. p. 205 (1904). 
? Coccopygia dufresnii (non Vieill.) Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 26 Milanji ; 
1897, p. 530 Nyika. 
Type. Very similar to C. quartinea; but differs in the mantle being 
darker with a browner shade, and the centre of breast, abdomen and under 
tail-coverts of a darker, more rufous buff shade. Wing 1:8. Kilimanjaro, 
6. 8. 88 (Hunter). 
The Kilimanjaro Waxbill ranges over Equatorial and Hast 
Africa from the Ruwenzori range of mountains into Nyasaland. 
The type was discovered by Mr. Hunter on Kilimanjaro, 
and to this species belong Lord Delamere’s specimens in the 
British Museum from Nairobe, Waso on the Myro River, and 
apparently a young male, with both mandibles black, from 
Irrigo on the north-west of Mount Kenya, shot on March 25; 
also all Mr. Jackson’s specimens collected at the Hldoma 
Ravine, Sotik, Landiani and the Ruwenzori Mountains, which 
is the most western range known for the species. I therefore 
presume that to this form belong the specimens recorded from 
Uluguru (Stuhlmann) and Bukoba (Emin). 
I feel more doubtful about those from the Marungu 
country (Marwitz) and from Nyasaland (Whyte), for they 
appear to me here to encroach upon the probable range of 
CQ. bocagei, and the females of these two species are hard to 
distinguish. The specimens from Nyasaland, two in number, 
were obtained by my friend Mr. Whyte on the Milanji plain 
and the Nyika plateau. 
