502 frinoillid^;. 



10. Emberiza forbesi. 



Fringillaria forbesi, Hart I. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 92; id. J.f. O. 

 1882, p. 324; id. Abhandl. nat. Verein. Bremen, viii. p. 284 (1883). 



Similar to E. flaviventris,\mt smaller, with the belly purer yellow, 

 and with no white spots or bars on the wing. 

 Hah. Equatorial Africa. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Kuterma, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pacha [P.]. 



May 26, 1883. 



11. Emberiza major. 



Fringilla cabanisi (nee Reichen.), Boc.age, Orn. Angola, p. 371 (1881). 

 Fringillaria ma] or, Boeage, Orn. Angola, p. 559 (1881); id. Jorn. 



Lisb. pt. xxxiv. pp. 77-79 (1882) ; IShelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 308. 

 Polymitra (Fringillaria) major, Cab. J.f. 0. 1880, p. 349, tab. ii. fig. 2. 



Adult male. General colour above streaked, the feathers rufous- 

 brown with broad black centres, "and pale ashy-brown margins to 

 the feathers of the mantle and back ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts dark ashy grey, the feathers of the upper back mottled 

 with black centres ; lesser wing-coverts black, edged with ashy 

 grey ; median coverts white with concealed white bases ; greater 

 coverts black, edged with light brown and tipped with white ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with whity 

 brown, ashy whitish along the margins of the primaries and outer 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers brown, edged with lighter brown, the 

 three outer ones with a wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner 

 web, increasing on the outermost, where it extends to the base, 

 leaving an oblique mark of brown at the basal two-thirds of the 

 inner web, and a long mark of pale brown along the end of the outer 

 web ; crown of head like the back, rufous-brown broadly streaked 

 with black, with a broad median line of white; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, and ear-coverts black, surmounted by an eye- 

 brow of white ; ear-coverts with a white posterior patch, and a 

 distinct line of white behind them ; cheeks black, w:ith a narrow 

 inferior line of white ; chin white ; throat and under surface of 

 body yellow ; sides of neck grey, as also the sides of the breast, 

 sides of body, and flanks; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with blackish bases 

 to those near the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish 

 along the inner edge : " upper mandible blackish, the lower one 

 reddish, with the point brown; iris brown" (Anchieta). Total 

 length 7 - 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3 - 65, tail 2 - 8, tarsus OS. 

 (Mus. G. E. Shelley.) 



Hub. Angola. 



12. Emberiza orientalis. 

 Fringillaria orientalis, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 308. 



Adult male (type of species). Similar to E. major, but smaller. 

 Total length 5-8 inches, culmen - 6, wing 3-25, tail 2-5, tarsus - S5. 

 (Mug. G. E. Shelley.) 



Hub. Eastern Africa. 

 a. J ad. .sk. Leopoldville, Upper Congo, Dec. F. Bohndorff [C], 



