490 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
purplish brown, Axis, 7”; diam., 53”, Captain Trevelyan has 
procured it near Kingwilliamstown, and Mr. Ayres obtained a single 
specimen in the Transvaal, in the bare open country. Mr. Andersson 
writes: “This species is common in Damara and Great Namaqua 
Land ; but as it frequently resorts to the ground in search of seeds 
and insects, it often escapes observation ; itis gregarious, and is 
partial to broken ground or its immediate vicinity, and also to 
the neighbourhood of water, which it appears to require pretty 
constantly.” 
Coloured like a lark ; above isabella, striped with brown ; beneath 
paler and immaculate; above the eye, and beneath the ears, a pale 
stripe; outer edgo of the secondaries, and inner edge of all the quills, 
rufous; a dark stripe behind the eye; throat inclining to dusky 
white ; belly and vent almost white ; wings and tail brown. Length, 
53"; wing, 2” 82’"; tail, 2”. Irides dark brown; legs, toes, and 
upper mandible of a dusky flesh colour, the lower mandible livid 
horn colour (Andersson). 
492, FRincmianra ranaprst (Smith). Rock Bunting. 
Mr. Ortlepp sends this species from Colesberg, and Mr. T. C. 
Atmore from Eland’s Post. We also ourselves saw a pair in the 
Blinkwater elinging to some low shrub on a high bank on the road- 
sides, but only succeeded in shooting the male. Mr. T. Ayres shot 
one specimen in November “at the upper drift of the Tugela, amongst 
the thorn bushes. There were three of them together, feeding 
amongst the short grass.” Sir Andrew Smith states that it inhabits 
the country towards the sources of the Vaal River, and Mr. T. E. 
Buckley obtained a pair in the Transvaal, at the end of N ovember, 
1873. Mr. Jameson found it sparsely among the rocks at Kanye, 
in the Matabele country. Although not met with by Mr. Andersson ¥ 
Senor Anchieta has procured two individuals in Angola, one at 
Biballa (native name, Kangua) and one at Caconda (native name, 
Giungo). It has also been found at Santo Antonio on the left bank 
of the Congo River by Messrs. Lucan and Petit, 
Head and throat black, the former with seven longitudinal white 
stripes, one from base of mandible to centro of nape, and three on 
each side ; body above light brown, dashed with dark brown, beneath 
light cinnamon-brown; tail dark brown, the outermost feather on 
