566 FRINGILLID^. 



white ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web. Total length 

 5*7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-4, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Rather more rufescent than the male, especially 

 below, the white throat not so conspicuous. Total length 6 - 5 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 3-3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'75. 



Young. Only differs from the adults in being more dingily coloured, 

 and in having the under surface of the body ashy, with dusky 

 streaks on the fore neck, breast, and flanks, the white stripes on 

 the head somewhat tinged with ochreous. 



Young in ivinter plumage. Resembles the adult female but is even 

 more rufous, t*io chestnut edgings to the wing-coverts, quills, and 

 tail-feathers being very broad and distinct ; the light streaks on 

 the head and the under surface of the body deep ochreous buff. 



Hah. Cape Colony, ranging into Namaqua-Land on the west and 

 to the eastern Transvaal on the east. Angola (teste Hartlaub), but 

 the locality requires confirmation. 



a. 2 ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. ; d. Juv. South Africa (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 

 sk. 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa. J. Gould, Esq. 



f. Ad. sk. Cape Towu. Earl of Crawford 



PP.]- 



g. h. Ad. sk. Cape Town (C. J. Andersson). Sharpe Coll. 

 i. Ad. sk. Green Point, Cape Town Sharpe Coll. 



Nov. 6 (C.J. A.). 

 Jc. 6 ad. sk. Mossel Bay, April 11 (F. W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Oates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



I. S ad. sk. Ptustenherg, June 6, 1878 Sharpe Coll. 



( W. Lucas), 

 m. Ad. sk. Tjobis, Damara-Land, May 30 Sharpe Coll. 



(C. J. A.). 



7. Fringillaria variabilis. 



Emberiza variabilis, Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 583. fig. 2 (1835) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. ii. p. 377 (1844) ; Temm. fy Sold. Faun. Jap., Aves, 

 pi. lvi. (1850) ; Horsf. Sr Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 487 

 (1856) ; Blakist. $ Pryer, B. of Japan, p. 171 (1882) ; Blakist. 

 Chrysanth. 1883, p. 35 ; id. Amended List B. Japan, pp. 17, 61 

 (1884). 



Euspiza variabilis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 469 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 

 p. 112, no. 7673 (1870); Swinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 457; Tacz. Bull. 

 Soc. Zool. France, 1879, p. 137, 1882, p. 392. 



Zonotrichia musica, Kittl, Denkw. ii. p. 201 (1858) ; Marti J.f. O. 

 1859, p. 50. 



Hypocentor variabilis, Stejneger, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 

 p. 247 (1885). 



Adult male. General colour above sooty grey, the mantle slightly 

 washed with brown and mottled with black spots at the end of the 

 feathers, the scapulars similarly marked ; lesser wing-coverts sooty 

 grey, the median and greater coverts as well as the quills blackish, 

 sooty grey externally and at the tips of the coverts and inner 



