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403. Fringilla Striaticeps ; PoUospiza stria- 



ticeps, N. Sp., Hart. 

 General colour above, dark reddish-brown, the centre of the 

 feathers being darkest ; head variegated with white streaks, 

 which, coalescing over the eye, form themselves into an 

 eyebrow ; chin and throat white, mottled on the former with 

 brown ; under parts ruddy-brown, the colour clearest an the 

 belly and vent. Length, 5" 9'" ; wing, 2" 9'" ; tail, 2i". 



Received from Mr, Atmore, Swellendam ; and found also in Damara- 

 land by Mr. Andersson. 



404. Fringilla Angolensis, Harti., Om. w. Af., 



p. 1 50 ; Linaria Atrogularis, Smith, Append, to Kept 



of Expd., p. 49 ; L. Angolensis, Briss., Orn. App., p. 



71 ; Frin. Angolensis, Gmel. ; Frin. Tobaca, Vieil. ; 



Fringil. Uropygialis, Licht, Bp. Consp., Vol. 1. p. 520. 

 Above, grey-brown, the centre of the feathers dark-brown ; 

 rump sulphur-yellow ; chin and throat black ; breast, belly, 

 and vent, rusty-white ; wings brown, the tips of the quills 

 and the inner edges of inner vanes, towards bases, white ; the 

 outer edges golden-green ; tail slightly forked, dark-brown, 

 with the tips, and more or less of the inner vanes, white. 

 Length, 4i". 



Inhabits the country about and beyond Kurrichane. — Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc, cit. Kafirland, Krebs. — Hartl., loc. cit. 



405. Fringilla Noevia, Gmel. ; Sys. Nat. l, p. II ; 



White-cheeked Finch, Shaw, Vol. IX, Pt. 2, p. 496 ; 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 3, 278, 44. 



Head and neck, pale cinereous ; upper parts of latter marked 

 with dusky streaks ; sides of head white, with a reddish 

 streak passing through the eye, which is bounded on the 

 under part with black, and joins another black streak arising 

 at the base of the under mandible ; back and wings, pale 

 rufous, with dusky streaks ; under parts of body, plain 

 cinereous ; tail dusky. Length, 9". 



" Native of Cape of Good Hope." — Shaw, loc. cit. * 

 This species has not, that I can learn, been recognised by any subse- 

 quent author. It is uncertain what bird is meant. 



Genus PASSER, Brisson. 

 Bill strong, sub- conical, and broad at the base, with the 

 culmen rounded, slightly arched, and the sides compressed to 



