5-58 FRINGILLIMS. 



d". Quills almost entirely rufous, except 



the tips, which are dusky brown .... siptemstri ita £, p. 560. 

 b. No rufous lining to the quills ; under wing- 

 coverts not rufous. 

 c'. Breast uniform. 



e". Wing-coverts chestnut capensis J 2> P- ^65. 



/''. Wing-coverts grey with black centres 

 like the breast ; head uniform slate- 

 colour like the entire under surface of 



the body variabilis J , p. 566. 



a". Breast ochraceous buff, distinctly streaked 



with blackish variabilis $ , p. 567. 



1. Fringillaria tahapisi. 



Emberiza tahapisi, Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Exped., App. p. 48 (1836) ; 



Hartl. Abhandl. not. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 105 (1881). 

 Fringillaria rufa, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837) ; id. An. in 



Menag. p. 315 (1837 ) ; Gray, Gen. B. p. 378 (1844). 

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



p. 467 (1850); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 138; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 207 (1867); Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 462; Gray, 



Hand-l.' B. ii. p. 115, no. 7721 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 70 (1871) ; id. §• Bouvier. Ball. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 77 ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 370 (1877-78) ; Omt. Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



(2) ii". Bull. p. 145 (1879) ; Ai/res, Ibis, 1880, p. 105; Butler, Feil- 



den, § Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 302 ; Shellet/, Ibis, 1882, p. 358 ; Sharpe, 



ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. pp. 490, 851 (1884). 

 Polymitra capistrata, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 129 (1850, ex Licht. 



MSS.). 

 Fringillaria capistrata, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 42 (1854); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 116, no. 7725 (1870). 

 Fringillaria septemstriata (nee Riipp.), Socage, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, 



p. 44 ; Scl. $ Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 171. 

 Polymitra tahapisi, Cab. J.f. O. 1878, p. 228. 



Adult male in winter plumaye. General colour above cinnamon- 

 rufous, mottled with black centres to the feathers, more distinct on 

 the back and mantle, where they are slightly edged with ashy brown ; 

 lesser wing-coverts exactly like the back ; median and greater 

 wing-coverts black, edged with cinnamon, inclining to creamy buff 

 on the extreme margins ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish brown, edged with pale rufous, a little more distinct on 

 the secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, narrowly edged with ashy 

 fulvous ; crown of the head black, the feathers edged with white, 

 more broadly down the centre of the crown, where these white 

 margins form a tolerably distinct streak ; a very distinct superciliary 

 line of white, followed by a broad streak of black, which occupies 

 the lores and the upper half of the ear-coverts, and is followed again 

 by another line of white from below the eye along the lower half of 

 the ear-coverts ; cheeks black, as well as the throat, separated from 

 each other by a malar line of white, the throat-feathers somewhat 

 varied with white edges to the feathers ; remainder of under surface 



