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b. No bright yellow on the chest ; under tail- 

 coverts buff or tawny. 

 c^. No streaks on the under parts. 



C". Upper throat yellow; crop and most of 



head olive hortitlana, ad. l-^y- 



/■-. Upper throat pale rufous ; crop and most 



of head grey ccBsia, ad. ' '' 



d^. Throat streaked hortulana,jii,v.,ccesia,iuu. 



Emberiza flaviventris. 



Passerina flaviventris, Vieili. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 929 (182.3) Cape. 

 Emberiza flaviventris, Bohm, J. f. 0. 1883, p. 202 Kakoma ; Reichen. 



J. f. 0. 1887, p. 73 Soboro ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 499 (1888) 



Congo, S. Afr. Ahjssinia ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 367 Useri B. ; 



Reichen. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 284 Userjua, Bufu B. ; 1891, p. 159 



Mpapiua, Tabora ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 259 Kamassia ; Reichen. 



J. f. O. 1892, p. 50 Uganda; Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 27; 1894, p. 23 



Zoniba ; Reichen. Vog. D. O. Afr. p. 194 (1894) ; Fleck, J. f . 0. 



1894, p. 409 D amar aland ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 235 (1896); 



Rendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 174 Transvaal; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 514 



Zululand ; Alexander, Ibis, 1899, p. 564 Zambesi; Jacksou, i. c. 



p. 623 Bavine; Nehrkorn, Kat. Biers, p. 112 (1899) egg; Stark, 



Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 184 (1900); Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 239 



Maslwna; Neum. J. f. 0. 1900, p. 287 Massai, Ulu ; Ivy, Ibis, 1901, 



p. 19 nest. 

 Fringillaria flaviventris, Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 105 Transvaal ; Dubois, 



Bull. Mus. R. Belg. 1886, p. 149 Tanganyika ; Buttik. Notes Leyd. 



Mus. 1889, p. 75 Ctmcne B. ; Emiu, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 60 Ugogo ; 



Hartl. Abhandl. nat. ver Brem. 1891, p. 25 Usambiro. 

 Polymitra flaviventris, Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 309 Kibondo. 

 Emberiza xanthogaster, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 18 (1826) S. Afr. ; 



Hartert, Kat. Vogels, Senck. Mus. p. 51 (1891 ; nom. emend, pro 



E. flo.vigasta, Riipp.). 

 Emberiza flavigaster, Riipp. Cretzschm in Riipp. Atlas, p. 38, pi. 25 



(1826) Kordofan; Reichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 73 Soboro; 1889, p. 284 



Usegm; Hartert, Kat. Vog. Mus. Senck. p. 51 (1891) Kordofan ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 237 (1896) ; Witherby, Ibis, 1891, p. 246 



Kaiva. 

 Polymitra flavigastra, Cab. J. f. 0. 1878, p. 228 Ndi ; Fisch, J. f. 0. 



1885, p. 136 Usaramo, Pangani, Maurui, Arusha, Ngaruka, 



Naitvasha, Wap)okomo, Barawa. 

 Adult male. Sides and upper part of head black, with five white 

 longitudinal bands, one down the centre of the crown to the neck, and two 



