564 FRINGILLID-ffi. 



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

 i. p. 467 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 152 (1857) ; Layard, 

 B. 8. Afr. p. 206 (18G7) ; id. Ibis, 1868, p. 247 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 115, no. 7720 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 70 (187D ; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 259; Gvrney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 189 

 (1872) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 239 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 489, 851 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, streaked with, 

 black centres to the feathers, the mantle and upper back rather 

 more rufescent ; lesser and median wing-coverts more rufous than 

 the back, with blackish centres ; greater coverts blackish, edged 

 with rufous, rather paler at the tips ; bastard- wing, primary- coverts, 

 and quills blackish, edged with pale rufous or isabelline, the secon- 

 daries more distinctly rufous externally, forming a conspicuous rufous 

 wing-patch ; tail-feathers blackish, with obsolete edgings of pale 

 brown, the outer one margined externally with whitish ; head like 

 the back and streaked in the same manner ; lores and a faint eye- 

 brow sandy isabelline, as also the eyelid ; ear-coverts rufous ; sides 

 of neck sandy brown, streaked with black ; cheeks and throat isabel- 

 line, as also the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; fore neck and 

 breast and sides of body inclining to sandy rufous, the lower flanks 

 narrowly streaked with blackish brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries sandy rufous or pale ferruginous ; quills dusky below, 

 rufous along the inner web : " upper mandible dusky flesh-colour, 

 lower one livid horn-colour ; legs and toes dusky flesh-colour ; iris 

 dark brown " (Andersson). Total length 5 - 2 inches, culmen 0'4, 

 wing 2-95, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 5*3 

 inches, culmen - 4, wing 2*7o, tail 2, tarsus 0"7. 



There appears to be little or no difference between the winter and 

 summer plumages of the present species, the latter being browner 

 and the former rather more grey and mealy in appearance. 



Hab. Cape Colony, less plentiful in the eastern districts, ranging 

 into the Transvaal and thence to Damara-Land, and said to occur in 

 Angola. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Africa, Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



c. Ad. sk. South Africa. M. Verreaux [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Berg Eiver (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 

 /. cJ ad. sk. Transvaal (T. Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 

 y. <S ad. sk. Tjanjouibo, Damara-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



Nov. 15 (C. J. Andersson). 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Omatoko, Damara-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



Jan. 19 (C. J. Andersson). 

 i. $ ad. sk. Orange Eiver, July 6, 1881 Sharpe Coll. 



(Dr. F. Bradshaw). 



