Ploceidse of the Ethiopian Region. 
335 
Hab. W. Afr., Senegambia. 
I have never seen a specimen, and have therefore merely 
entered the name in my “ key to the genus/' According to 
Vieillot's figure, l. c., it has the bill and feet red; a red 
band through the eyes as in E. astrild; back, wings, and tail 
olive; cheeks, throat, and entire underparts grey, washed 
with very pale red, rather brighter toward the vent. 
M. Rochebrune records it from six localities in Sene¬ 
gambia, but considers it rare. I can find no other instance 
of its having been met with since Vieillot's time. 
67. Estrelda granatina. 
Fringilla granatina, Linn. S. N. i. 1766, p. 319. 
Loxia granatina, Hand. Traite Orn. ii. 1800, p. 446. 
Granadin, Vieill. Ois. Chant. 1805, p. 40, pis. 17 S, 18 $ . 
Estrelda granatina , Chapm. Trav. S. Afr. ii. App. 1848, 
p. 402. 
Estrelda ( Granatina ) granatina, Bp. Consp. i. 1850, p. 458. 
Urceginthus granatinus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 1851, p. 171. 
Mariposa granatina, Beichb. Singvog. 1831, p. 7, pi. 1. 
figs. 4, 5. 
Hab. S. Afr., from Matabele and the Transvaal to Damara 
and Lake Ngami. 
This species has been recorded by Hartlaub (Orn. W.-Afr. 
p. 144) from Angola ( Henderson), and I have a note of a 
specimen from Angola ( Linnier ) ; but according to Bocage 
(Orn. Angola, p. 353) it is not known to him from either 
Angola or Benguela. In E. Africa it appears to be en¬ 
tirely replaced by Estrelda ianthinogastra, and I suspect that 
to that species belongs the Urceginthus granatinus, Roche- 
brune (Faun. Senegamb. p. 255). As there is a large 
trade with Senegal in cage-birds, this species may have 
been naturalized there, but cannot, I think, ever have been 
indigenous. 
68. Estrelda ianthinogastra. 
Urcegmthus granatinus, Cab. (nec Linn.) J. f. O. 1878, 
p. 229 (d or £ juv.), E. Afr.; ? Rochebrune, Faun. Sene¬ 
gamb. 1884, p. 255, Gambia, Casamanse. 
