Abstract
We here report our recent success with the bar-breasted firefinch, Lagonosticta rufop icta. The barbreasted differs most notably from the familiar red-billed firefi nch, L. senegala, in these respects: the white spots are larger and more like broad horizontal bars; the female is colored like the male; the crown, nape, mantle and wings are brown rather than red; and they are larger and "plumper in shape.
