5(50 FHINUILLJD.K. 



Polymitra septemstriata, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 129, note (1850). 

 Emberiza striolata, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 218 (nee Riipp.). 

 Emberiza tahapisi (nee Smith), Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. p. 6tio 

 (1871). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above rufescent 

 brown, streaked -with black, less distinctly so on the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts uniform chestnut ; median and 

 greater series black, edged with chestnut; bastard- wing black, 

 fringed with pale rufous ; primary-coverts and quills black, edged 

 with chestnut, this colour occupying the entire base of the outer 

 primaries, the inner primaries and all but the innermost secondaries 

 being entirely chestnut excepting at the tip, which is dusky blackish ; 

 upper tail coverts and tail dusky blackish, margined with pale 

 rufous : the outer feather rufous along the whole of the outer web 

 and with a pale rufous wedge-shaped mark along the inner web; 

 crown of head black on the sides, with a median streak of huffy white 

 streaked with black ; a distinct white eyebrow running from the 

 base of the nostrils above the ear-coverts, followed by a black streak 

 occupying the lores and the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; this 

 again followed by a wbite streak below the eye and along the lower 

 part of the ear-coverts, followed by a black streak along the cheeks 

 a nd by a white malar line ; base of chin whitish ; throat ashy grey, 

 with black bases to the feathers ; remainder of under surface deep 

 cinnamon-rufous or chestnut ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 as well as the quill-lining chestnut : " upper mandible pale flesh- 

 colour, the lower mandible dusky blackish ; feet reddish ; iris clear 

 brown." Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3-1, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus - 7. 



Adult female . Browner than the male, the head being like the 

 back and streaked with black in the same manner, the crown having 

 a slightly indicated paler streak down the centre ; the chestnut on 

 the wings less developed, the blackish tips to the inner primaries 

 more extended, as also the black on the outer edges of the first pri- 

 maries ; facial markings not so distinct as in the male, the black 

 replaced by dusky stripes and the white by fulvous ; throat browner 

 than in the male, and showing a few dusky streaks on the fore neck. 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-8, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-65. 



Hub. N.E. Africa, across to Senegambia and the Niger district. 



a. 9 ad. sk. Abyssinia. . Dr. Kuppell [O.]. 



b 2 ad. sk. Senate, Tigre, May 26. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



c. 2 ad.sk. Sahati, Samhar, March 24. W. T. Blantord,Esq. 



d S ad. sk. Ain, Lebka Kiver, Bogos, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



July 5. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Ain, Aug. 16. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



/*. 2 ad. sk. Ain, Aug. 16 (W. Jesse). Sharpe Coll. 



q d ad. sk. Maragaz, July 28 ( W. Jesse). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h, d ad. sk. Sboa, Aug. 16, 1882 (A. An- Sharpe Coll. 



tinori). 



i. 2 ad. sk. River Niger. Forbes Coll. 



