ST^ILUM ^yF©[PD©T/^ 0 
Red-painted Waxbill. 
Estrildo rufopicta, , Fraser, p r0 c. 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 (Gcertnera 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. 
