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broad black subterrainal bars; and the shoulder-feathers 

 and secondary quills have a distinct black subterminal bar 

 and a buff terminal patch. The ground-colour of the under- 

 side is paler than in A. f. fasciata, sometimes whitish, and 

 all the feathers below the scarlet crop-band have a rounded 

 black subterminal marking. 



Adult female. Differs from the female of ^. f. fasciata in 

 the same way as the male. It differs from the male in 

 lacking the scarlet crop-band. 



Hab. East Africa from North Abyssinia, through Shoa 

 and Somaliland, to German East Africa. Intermediate 

 specimens between the two forms seem to occur in parts of 

 "Western Abyssinia and between the White Nile and Lake 

 Eudolf. 



Type in the Tring Museum : (^ . Waram_, Hawash River, 

 Shoa, 9. vi. 03. P. Zaphiro coll. 



Obs. Mr. Boyd Alexander has already recognised the 

 differences between the two forms of A, fasciata, but unfor- 

 tunately he has renamed the true A. fasciata as A. sudanensis 

 \cf Bull. B. O. C. xix. p. 104 (1907)]. On examining the 

 plate of "The Easciated Grossbeck^^ in Brown^s '^Illustrations 

 of Zoology,^ on which Gmelin^'s description is based, it will 

 be seen that the western form is depicted. This bird ranges 

 from Senegal, over the whole of the Sudan, to Khartum and 

 the White Nile. . 



ESTRILDA CINDERELLA, Sp. n. 



Adult male. Upperside, wings, and breast pale grey, with a 

 rosy wash on the back and breast. Chin, upper throat, and 

 under wing-coverts paler and more whitish ; lores and a 

 stripe behind the eye black ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and 

 sides of the abdomen dark scarlet ; middle of the abdomen 

 sooty black ; tail and under tail-coverts black. Bill purple 

 (yellowish in the dry skin) at the base, black at the tip. 

 Wing 49 mm. ; tail 50. 



Hab. Benguella. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ,$ . Deep Sloot, Benguella, 

 25. xi. 05. W. J. Ansorge coll. 



