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6. Fringillaria capensis. 



Ortolan clu Cap de Bonne Esperance, Brisa. Orn. iii. p. 280, pi. xiv. 



fig. 4 (1760) ; Daubent. PL Enl. v. pi. 158. fig. 2 *, pi. 064. fig. 1. 

 Eruberiza capensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 310 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 



Nat, i. p. 878 (1788) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. ix. p. 372 (1815) ; Grill, 



Zool. Anteckn, p. 25 (1858). 

 Cape Bunting, var. (5, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 186 (1783). 

 Emberiza flav. ! $ , Sodd. Tall. PL Enl. p. 41 (1783). 

 Caffrarian Bunting, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. v. pi. 318 (1822). 

 Passerina capensis, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 929 (1823). 

 Emberiza canrariensis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 18 (1826). 

 Emberiza erytkroptera, Temm. Tab/. Meth. p. 39 (1836). 

 Fringillaria vittata, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 315 (1837) ; id. Classif. 



B. ii. p. 290 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844) ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 207 (1807). 

 Fringillaria capensis, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837) ; Strickl. 



Ann. $ Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 374 (1842) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 378 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 467 (1850) ; Strickl. $ Scl. Contr. 



Oi-n. 1852, p. 151 ; Hartl. 0m. W.-Afr. p. 152 (1857) ; id. J.f. 



O. 1861, p. 260 ; Layard, B. S.Afr. p. 206(1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 115, no. 7716 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 70 (1871) ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 80 ; Sharpe, in Oates" 1 Matabele-Land, App. 



p. 322 (1881) ; Holub Sf Von Pelz. Beifr. Orn. Sudafr. p. 135 (1882) ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl, Coll. p. 238 (1882) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. 



S. Afr. pp. 489, 851 (1884) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1884, p. 230. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, broadly streaked with 

 black centres to the feathers, the head rather greyer than the back 

 and similarly streaked with black, the crown having a more or less 

 distinct pale central streak ; rump uniform brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts brown, edged with ashy grey ; lesser and median coverts 

 chestnut, the latter with concealed black centres ; greater coverts 

 blackish, externally edged with chestnut ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish, fringed with pale brown edges ; quills blackish, 

 the primaries edged with ashy white, the secondaries with chestnut ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy, the outer one externally 

 margined with whitish and having a slight indication of a pale 

 wedge-shaped spot near the tip of the inner web ; a very distinct 

 white eyebrow running from the base of the nostril to the sides of 

 the nape, followed by a black streak occupying the lores, upper 

 eyelid, and running along the upper part of the ear-coverts ; this 

 again succeeded by a white band from the gape below the eye along 

 the lower portion of the ear-coverts ; this succeeded by another 

 band of black along the cheeks, joining the black eye-stripe behind 

 the ear-coverts ; throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and breast 

 ashy, as well as the sides of the body, the lower flanks having a few 

 blackish streaks ; lower abdomen and under tail-coverts dull white ; 

 thighs blackish brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish 



* This figure I believe to be a bad copy of the one given in Brisson's work, 

 coloured from his description and not from an actual specimen. It is not 

 recognizable as the Cape Bunting, but looks more like C. impctuani. The 

 description given by Brisson, however, is a good one. There can be no doubt as 

 to the species represented in Daubenton's plate 604. 



