55. FRINGILLAKIA. 559 



of body pale cinnamon-rufous, with ashy margins to the feathers, 

 and concealed black bases to the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous, the outer coverts mottled 

 with black bases ; quills dusky below, ashy rufous along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total leugth 5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 3~05, tail 

 2 - 3, tai - sus 075. 



Adult female in winter plumage. Browner than the male and 

 having the head brown, streaked with black like the back ; a faint 

 streak of rufescent brown down the centre of the crown ; black and 

 white facial streaks not so strongly indicated as in the male ; throat 

 ashy, with black bases to the feathers. Total length 5 inches, culmen 

 0-4, wing 2-95, tail 2-35, tarsus 065. 



Adult male and female in summer plumage. Differ from the 

 respective winter plumages in being brighter in every respect ; 

 throat in the male entirely black, in the female ashy ; white and 

 black facial markings more distinct than in winter, and the under 

 surface of the body much richer cinnamon-rufous, the outer tail- 

 feathers also more distinctly edged with rufous. 



Hub. Eastern Cape Colony, throughout Natal, the Transvaal, and 

 the Matabele Country, Avestwards to Benguela, the Congo, and as 

 high as Gaboon. Dr. Hartlaub has recorded it from Iviri in Equa- 

 torial Africa (Em in Bet/), and he assures me that he has no doubt 

 as to the species, which certainly goes to Socotra (vide infra). 



a. 2 ad- sk. Eland's Post ( T. C. At more). Sharpe Coll. 



b. j ad. sk. Kingwillianistown. Capt. Trevelyan [P .]. 



c. J ad. sk Kingwillianistown, May 15, Capt. Trevelyan [P. J. 



1880 (C. Neicby). 



d. e. (S Jad.sk. Crocodile River, Transvaal, Sharpe Coll. 



Dec. ( Wahlbery). 



f>g< h- 6 ; i) &• Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). Livingstone Expedi- 



2 ad. sk. tion. 



/. 2 ad. sk. Gaboon (DuChailhi). Sharpe Coll. 



m. <$ ad. sk. Socotra (Prof. Balfour). Brit. Assoc. [P.]. 



2. Fringillaria septemstriata. 



Emberiza septemstriata, Hupp. Neue Wirb. Vbg. p. 86, tab. 30. fig. 2 

 (1835-40) ; id. Syst. Uelers. p. 78 (1845) ; Des Murs in Lefebvre, 

 Toy. Abyss, p. 120 (1845); Meuyl. Si/st. Uelers. p. 42 (1856); 

 Blanf. Geol. §■ Zool. Abyss, p. 410 (1870); Finsch, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. vii. p. 271 (1870) ; id. $ Hartl. Vby. Ost-Afr. p. 400, note 

 (1870). 



Eringillaria septemstriata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 467 (1850); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 152 (1857); 

 Heugl. Ibis, 1859, p. 343; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 291; Brehm, 

 Reis. Habesch, p. 343 (1863) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 116, no. 7724 

 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. cxlvii (1871) ; Sharpe, 

 Cut. Afr. B. p. 70 (1871); Antin. Sf Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 113 

 (1873;; Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 549; Saload. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. (2) i. p. 171 (1884); Rochebr. Faun. Seneg., Ois. p. 259 

 (1884). 



