AMADINA ERYTHROCEPHALA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXIX. 
A. supra fusco-cinerea, infra flavo-grisea rubro-tincta, et liic plumis ad apices fasciolis nigro-brunneis 
et fasciis albis variegatis ; abdomine subalbido rufo-tincto ; capite gulaque in mare purpureo-coccineis ; 
rectricibus, duabus raediis exceptis, ad apices albis. 
Longitudo 5 unc. 6 lin. 
Loxia Maculosa, Burchett. — Travels in South Africa, vol. ii. p. 269. 
Colour. — Male. — The upper and lateral parts of the head, the nape and 
the chin vermilion-red, — the front, sides of the head, and chin, strongly 
tinted with arterial blood-red ; the upper and lateral parts of the neck, the 
interscapulars, back, rump, and tail coverts brocoli-brown, — the two last- 
named lightest, tipped with dirty white, and more or less regularly barred 
with narrow lines of brownish-red. The throat and breast yellowish-grey, 
brightened with a slight admixture of hyacinth-red, and barred with deep 
liver-brown ; the bars are narrow, those on the throat very faint and 
indistinct, those on the breast strongly marked and arched, the convexity being 
backwards. On the breast the space between the last two brown bars of 
each feather, one of which forms its tip, is orange-coloured white ; the belly 
and flanks are dull hyacinth-red, barred and spotted with white like the 
breast ; vent cream-yellow ; the under tail coverts brocoli-brown, broadly 
tipped with cream-yellow, the colours separated by a narrow brown crescent. 
The lesser wing coverts and the primary and secondary quill coverts inter- 
mediate between brocoli-brown and yellowish-brown, several of the former, and 
all the latter broadly tipped with cream-yellow and narrowly barred, in front of 
the latter colour, with brown. The quill feathers are light brownish-red, 
tipped and margined, externally, with light wood-brown ; the tail feathers the 
same colour, and, except the two middle ones, each has a large white blotch 
at the tip of its inner vane ; the outer vane of the outermost tail feathers of 
each side is also white. Bill, dull yellowish-brown, the under mandible 
lightest and of a pink hue. Eyes, deep reddish brown. Legs, a light 
flesh colour. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather robust ; head large, bill strong, short, and 
pointed ; the commissure of the upper mandible is waved, and towards the 
