500 FR1NGILLID.E. 



Emberiza quinquestriata, Licht. Descr. Anim. p. 405 (1844, ex Forst. 



Icon. ined. V). 

 Fringillaria flaviventris, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 467(1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 151 (1857) ; Gurney, Ibis, 



I860, p. 213 ; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 260 ; Antin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. 



p. 74 (1864) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 206 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 115, no. 7717 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. cxlvii 



(1871); Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. *258; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 70 



(1871) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 188 (1872) ; Antin. 



fy Salvad. Viayy. Buyos, p. 113 (1873) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 382; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 81 ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 370 (1877-81) ; 



Sharpe, in Oates' Matabele Land, App. p. 322(1881); Holub fy 



Von Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 135 (1882); Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 358 ; Butler, Feilden §• Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 302 ; Sharpe, ed. 



Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 491, 851 (1884). 

 Emberiza flavigaster, iiiipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 78 (1845) ; Bianc. Spec. 



Zool. Mosamb. fasc. xvi. p. 327 (1865). 

 Frinrillaria flavigaster, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 42 (1856); Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844). 

 Polyruitra flaviventris, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 129 (1850). 

 Polymitra flavigastra, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 129 (1850); id. 



J.f. O. 1878, p. 221; Fischer $ Reichen. J.f. O. 1879, p. 353; 



Fischer, Zeitsch. ges. Orn. i. p. 319 (1884). 

 Emberiza flavigastra, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 42 (1854). 

 Euspiza xanthogastra, ) 



Megalotis quiuquevittatus, ( Pr. Wiirtt. MSS. (! !), teste Heugl. J.f. O. 

 Emberiza aflinis, t 1867, p. 297. 



Emberiza albicollis, j 



Emberiza flaviventris, Finsch Sf Hartl. Vbg. Ostafi: p. 458 (1870) ; 



Blanf. Geol. % Zool. Abyss, p. 411 (1870) ; Finsch, Trans. Z. S. 



vii. p. 270 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 663 (1871); 



Schaloic, J.f. O. 1883, p. 364. 



Adult male in summer plumage. Mantle and back uniform chest- 

 nut, with, an ashy-grey shade on the hind neck, separating the head 

 from the mantle ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy 

 grey, the latter narrowly fringed with whitish edges ; scapulars like 

 the back ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey ; median series white with 

 black bases, forming a large patch ; greater coverts blackish, ex- 

 ternally ashy, white at the ends, forming a bar ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts black, the latter slightly fringed with white at the 

 ends ; quills blackish, edged with ashy whitish, the inner secon- 

 daries with chestnut ; tail-feathers blackish, margined with ashy, 

 the four outer ones tipped with white, which increases towards the 

 outermost feather, this being white along the whole of the outer 

 web as well, with the exception of a blackish spot near the end ; 

 crown of head black, with a median streak of white down the 

 centre ; lores and eyebrow white, followed by a black streak through 

 the eye along the upper half of the ear-coverts ; this sti'eak again 

 followed by a broad white streak below the eye along the lower half 

 of the ear-coverts : entire cheeks black, forming another broad band ; 

 on the sides of the neck a white patch ; base of chin white ; entire 

 throat, breast, and centre of abdomen yellow as far as the vent, 

 the fore neck and chest deepening into orange ; sides of upper 

 breast, sides of body, and thighs pale ashy grey ; sides of abdomen 



