. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . oured than the cock, the yellow and orange of theunder parts being much paler. Hab., North TropicalAfrica, betAveen about 16 N. lat. and theEquator. Captain Shelley the Southern representa-tive under the name of the Southern Zebra Waxbill{Estrilda rlarl-fi). and says it differs in the entirethroat and centre of breast Ixing pale yellow, with, atmost, .a slight wash of orange on the crop. Centre ofbreast in female huffy white, with a faint lemon shadeon the Hab., to the Equator. No doubt both forms are sold indiscrimi
. Foreign birds for cage and aviary . oured than the cock, the yellow and orange of theunder parts being much paler. Hab., North TropicalAfrica, betAveen about 16 N. lat. and theEquator. Captain Shelley the Southern representa-tive under the name of the Southern Zebra Waxbill{Estrilda rlarl-fi). and says it differs in the entirethroat and centre of breast Ixing pale yellow, with, atmost, .a slight wash of orange on the crop. Centre ofbreast in female huffy white, with a faint lemon shadeon the Hab., to the Equator. No doubt both forms are sold indiscriminately under one name, and it is probable that at the Equator wherethe two forms meet it would be very difhcult to eaywhich was which. Mr. W. K. (). Grant, describing an example obtainedat Moradar {Thr Ibis, 1907. p. 583), says:—Theexample of the Sanguineous Waxbill procured by , apparently an unusually fine bird, has and belly scarlet and of a much more intensecolour than in any of the specimens in the British. Orange-breasted or Zebra Finches. Museum. Happily he does not give it a distinctivescientific name. Of the Southern fonn Mr. Stark vn-ites (Birds ofSouth Africa, Vol. I., p. 106) :— These very beautifullittle Waxbills differ in their habits from thecommon Estrilda a-Hrilda. They prefer the borders ofstreiuns and marshes, where there is a thick growth oTbushes and reeds, to the more open graes-lands, andthey are nmch shyer and more eisily alarmed. In Natal,where they are not unconmion from May to December, Ihave generally met with them in flocks of no great size,feeding on the grouiui on , but taking refugein bushes if disturbed. \Vlien feeding they keep up a,continuous chirping. The eggs of this species are pure white, and measureon the average bv In captivity this V\axl)ill has been induced by theGermans to breed tolerably freely in a high tempoiature ; WAXBILLS. 155 and of late years it has been bred by variou
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