37. PETKONIA. 907 



nivt t Eairitr d Eogos Land iu M - AMca to the *■*■* 



tt ' t Jw'. sk. %let ' E ° g0S {Eder) - Shar Pe Coll. 



d. $ ad. sk. Lower Sooroo, Feb. 16, 1868. W. T. Blanf ord, Es^. [C.]. 



6. Petronia petronella. 



Fringilla petronella, Lickt,, Gray, Haad-l. B. ii. p. 84, no. 7244 



Gymnorhis superciliaris, Bhdh T 4 v j> • -~ , ,, 



A. Hay, mIs, ; B P . 'Sj^jf ( j&fc "* P " "" <*»*> « 

 Petronia superciliaris, i/ytf*, ,/. ^ ^JL ^ n 8an nQ .„ 



^wfem. if. Damara-lani p. 186 ( lti7->, . P j„, P5P 2r^ ? 



18«4 p. 203; tf^, rf^^Ti'jSP. pp^iSfg^ 

 Xanthodinapeteonoides, Cab. M m . Hein. TXiFmtSmi*' 

 FrmgiUa humihs, 2fr. G«wp. i. p . 511 (i860) P " U °° J ' 

 Pyrgita hunulis, Lidd. Nomenci Av. Berol. p. 47 (1854) 

 ^thoduta petronell* ^, On, N.O.Jfi, [ ^ p. 627, note 



Xauthudiua superciliaris, Heiujl. t. c. p. 627, note (1870) 

 Passer hunnks, Gray, llaaU-l. B. ii. p 86, no 7276 (1870) 

 Xanthodira flavigula Socage, On, LyJa, p 365 (1881) ' 

 Petronia flavigula, SheUey, Ibis, 1882, p. 3-37 { j " 



4dufe male. General colour above brown mottled nn «,. 1 1 

 and mantle with black centres to the feathers wnirhb f" 



coverts rather more ashv brown • i« ■ .<» ■ * upper tail- 



the secondaries which are margmed witl t ?u If the uri 

 manes margined with ashy whitish about one third X the end 



crown ol bead dark brown, with a broad superciliary streak of 

 creamy white, reaching from above the eye to the sides of the nane 

 lores dusky brown, with a pale whity brown line a^ove the latter • 

 ear-coverts and cheeks brown, whity brown on the lorls, eyel id and 

 feathers below the eye; above the ear-coverts a brotdXeak of 



throat; the Z^^J^£*^^J^ 

 coverts whiUsh; ^^j1^Z'J£ ^a 



