53. EMBERIZA. 



501 



and under 'tail-coverts white: axillaries and under win-coverts 



S l 6 !^ 11 / r a - J b , el ° W ' r hiti8h aI ° Dg the <**> of the ^ner TT 

 Total length bo inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-2, tail 2-86 tarsus 0-7 



ihe adult mah in winter plumage differs from the summer nln 

 mage only m having the back varied with ashy-fulvous mir'in?^ 

 the feathers of the mantle and back, and in having the ZSZ Lks 

 on the head and lace washed with fulvous ; the°sides of the u, „er 

 breast and flanks washed with pale ashy brown instead of -revish 



Adult female Differs from the male only in having th? btk 

 darker chestnut or maroon, broadly streaked with black centres to 

 the feathers of the mantle, upper back, and scapulars. This streaMrS 



&"*£?;=£ be especiaI1 >' *"* » « «* "2 



■K° l ^' / \ Re f mbles the ad "lt female, and has the back streaker] 

 with black; the facial markings dusky blackish and ochre us buff 

 the latter very strongly pronounced on the coronal streak ; the yellow 

 of the underpays duller, with a tinge of saffron on the fore neck 

 After the moult into the first winter plumage, the above conditions 

 of plumage are intensified, and the ochreous-buff streak on the 

 crown is very broad and distinct. 



Specimens from N.E Africa (true E. flaviventris of Biippell) are 

 smaller (wing 3-0-3-05 inches), and have a black mark at t^e end of 

 the outer web of the penultimate tail-feather as well as on the outer- 

 most while at the same time the white tip never seems to extend 

 on the fourth feather, only the three outer ones being so marked 



Hab. South-eastern Africa, through the Transvaal to the Zambesi 

 and to Damara-Land and Eenguela in S.W. Africa ; N E Africa 



a. $ ad. sk. 



b. c? imrn. sk. 



c. [ $ ] ad. sk. 



d. [ 2 ] ad. sk. 



e. 2 a d- sk. 



f. c? ad. sk. 



g. $ ad. sk. 

 h. $ ad. sk. 



i. Juv. sk. 



k. $ ad. sk. 



I. Ad. sk. 



m. Imm. sk. 



n. cJ ad. sk. 



Eland's Post, S.E. Africa, June 



(T. C. Atmore). 

 Eland's Post, July (T. C. A) 

 Eland's Post ( T. C. A.). 

 Kingwilliainstown. 

 Pinetown, Natal, Nov. 5 (T. L. 



Ayres). 

 Transvaal ( T .Ayres) 

 Xanye ', Matabele-Land (TJr.^ton). Sharpe Coll. 



OateT ' 0ct - 10 (i "- W ^ E - & &?■ 0ate8 > 



Inchlangin, Dec. (F. O.) 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Capt. Trevelyan [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



o. c? ad. sk. 

 p. Imm. sk. 



Ad. sk. 



r. 



d ad. sk. 

 2 juv. sk. 



Between Gokwe and Serule, Oct 



17 (F. O.). 

 1st Makalaka Kraal, Zambesi 



Road, Aug. 19 (F. O.). 

 Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Oct. 10 



(C. J. Andersson). 

 Leopoldville, Upper Congo, Oct. 

 Abyssinia. 

 Abyssinia. 



Senafe, Tigre, May 22 ( W. Jesse). 

 Rairo, Bogos, Aug. U (W. Jesse). 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.], 

 W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Livingstone Exped. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



F. Bohndorff [C.l. 

 Dr. Riippell [C.l. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



