558 Mr. L. B. Mouritz on the 



grass in the bottom. The nest was circular and cup-shaped; 

 over-all diameter 2^ inches ; over-all depth 2 inches, and 

 inside depth \\ inches. This nest was placed in an Olax 

 dissitiflora and the surrounding leaves Avere attached to the 

 exterior.making the whole structure extremely hard to detect. 

 Other nests were very similar and protectively decorated with 

 lichen and spiders' webs, and as a rule situated nine or ten 

 feet from the ground, but occasionally as low as three feet 

 six inches. The nestlings, at first covered with yellowish 

 down, are fed on insects; and by the time they are fledged 

 their home becomes very dirty. The eggs are two or three 

 in number and are of a very pale bluish ground-colour 

 spotted with pale brown. 



184. Anomalospiza imberbis. Rendall's Seed-eater. 

 Serinus imberbis rendalli (Cab.) ; Scl. i. p. 172. 



I shot a male on January 15, 1911, in the Terminus 

 Hotel grounds. Iris brown ; bill dusky ; legs and feet 

 dusky-brown. The stomach contained small seeds and 

 remains of insects. 



185. X Einberiza flaviventris. Golden-breasted Bunting. 

 The Golden-breasted Bunting is not uncommon in the 



open country, but is far more numerous within the hills. 



186. Fringillaria capensis media, Deelfontein Bunting. 

 Fringilluria capensis media (Sharpe) ; Sclater, Annals 



S. A. Mus. iii. 1905, p. 314. 



A common species during the summer, frequenting the 

 kopjes and foothills, but, in common with the next species, 

 evidently partially migratory, as I seldom noticed it during 

 the dry season, 



187. + Fringillaria tahapisi. Bock-Bunting. 



Very common in the hills, open veld, and " maqaqa " 

 country during the wet season, but far rarer later. I found 

 a nest on April 1 containing three nestlings with tufts of 

 dark grey down on the head, dorsal and forearm tracts; 

 the nest was made of coarse grass, copiously lined with finer, 

 and placed under a tussock of grass on the top of a liigh 

 river-bank. 



