FRINGILLARIA IMPETUANI. 489 
build ina cage. Itis very common at East London according to 
Mr. Rickard. 
Head greenish brown; rump yellowish green, mottled with 
brown ; eyebrows yellow; under parts greenish yellow, the yellow 
predominating on the chin and down the centre of the belly ; wing 
and tail-feathers blackish brown, tipped with white; tail-coverts 
grey. Length, 5’ 3/’; wing, 2’’ 9''’; tail; 2’’ 2’’’.  Ivides 
reddish brown. 
Fam. EMBERIZIDZ. 
490, Frinainiaria capensis (D.) Cape Bunting. 
Fringillaria capensis and FI’. vittata, Layard, B. of S. Afr. 
pp- 206, 207. 
This Bunting is universally distributed throughout the colony, 
but apparently becomes gradually less plentiful in the Eastern 
districts, as Mr. Rickard says it is not very abundant near Port 
Elizabeth. Mr. T. C. Atmore has forwarded it to us from Hland’s 
Post. 
The “ Streepkopje” has very much the habits of the European 
Hedge Sparrow. It frequents low bushes and rocks, creeping 
about the former, and running up the latter, and sitting on their 
summits, opening and shutting its wings, and uttering a little 
short, piping note. It breeds about bushes and rocks, placing its 
nest in crevices or among roots, or even on the ground; the eggs 
are white, profusely speckled with minute rufous and light purple 
markings: axis, 10’”’; diam.,6’’’. They are laid at the Berg River 
in September. 
Aboye grey, striped with black; beneath cinereous grey; sides of 
the head with two white and two black stripes ; wing-coverts rufous ; 
quills and tail blackish ; chin and under tail-coverts whitish. Length, 
sewing. 9; tail) 2” 6’. 
Fig. Temm. Pl. Col. 664, fig. 1. 
491. FRrncmLaria mmpeTuANt, Smith. Lark-like Bunting. 
Common about Nel’s Poort, flying in small flocks and feeding on 
small grass seeds and insects, It has a short lively song. Its nest 
is cup-shaped, constructed in a low bush. Eggs white spotted in a 
ring with obscure ill-defined cloudy blotches and pin-point dots of 
