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The Birds of Gambia. 
Pyreiiesies sanguineus. 
Range. Seiiegaiiibia to Sierra Leone [Sh). 
Specimen from the Gambia in the British Museuin. Head, neck and 
breast crimson, rest brown ; large bluish beak. 
I know neither of tliese birds. 
Amadina fasciaia. CUTTHROAT. 
Range. \V. and N.E. Africa [Sh.) 
Found in Gambia, but certainly not common — occasionall}' seen 
caged, but I think I have onh' met with them wild. 
Uroloncha cantans. SILVERBIIJ,. 
Range. W. and N.E. Africa. {Sh.) 
Not common in Gambia, but there are generally one or two to be 
found in the bird catchers' cages. 
Spennesies fringilloides. MAGPIE MANNIKIN. 
Range. Greater part of Africa except the North-east. (Sh.) 
Found in Gambia, but not common. Two or three were caught at 
Kow in January, 1904. 
6". cucullata. BRONZE .MANNIKIN. 
Range. West and Equatorial .Africa [Sh.) 
Very common in Gambia. In thousands in Bathurst in June, often 
feeding in flocks on the roads and on the sand-dunes behind the beach. 
Always found in flocks. They appear to like the neighbourhood of fairly 
large trees, to which they retire when frightened. 
Nests found in groups in fair-sized thorn-trees; perfectly circular 
structure of grass with a single chamber and side entrance, fixed to the end 
of the branches. 
Eggs white. 
I think they must breed nearly all the year round, as I have seen 
young birds in the speckly brown first plumage at nearly all seasons. 
S. bicolor. TWO-COLOURED MANNIKIN. 
Range. Senegambia to Cameroons {Sh). 
Not yet seen. 
Orlygospiza airicollis. QUAIL FINCH. 
Range. Senegambia to Gaboon {Sh.) 
I have never recognised these birds in the Gambia, but have occasion- 
ally seen small birds which I have believed to be this species. 
Estrilda phcenicoiis. CORDON-BLEU. 
Range. W.E. and N.E. Africa. {Sh.) 
Common everywhere in Gambia. In parties of twenty or more in the 
clearings and thin bush round the towns. Make untidy nests of grass in 
low thickish bushes, preferably thorns. Eggs white. 
Mandingo name : Temuiento-Kunundingo. 
