Red-painted Wax bill. 



Estrilda rufopicta, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 27. 



Of the habits and manners of this very beautiful little species nothing whatever is known ; I 

 was only enabled, during my short stay at Cape Coast Castle, to procure a single specimen. 



Habitat, Cape Coast, Western Africa. 



The beautiful cultivated flowering climber {Gartner a raceamosa), given on the accompanying 

 plate, is the Muddoomattee of Dukhun, copied from one of Col. Sykes' drawings. 



The whole of the upper surface of the body is brown ; the frontal band, cheeks, throat, breast 

 and rump, are vinaceous ; this colour is also slightly diffused over the abdomen ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts, pale yellow ; on the breast are a few delicate white spots ; the mandibles are red, with 

 a black culmen. 



Total length, three inches and three-quarters. 



