144 EMBERIZA FLAVIVENTRIS. 



on each side of the head, above and below the eye and ear-coverts ; sides 

 and back of neck greyish ash, incHning to white on the sides near the black 

 ear-coverts ; upper back and scapulars deep cinnamon, with or without 

 buff edges to the feathers ; middle and lower back and upper tail-coverts 

 pale ashy grey. Wing blackish brown with the least coverts grey ; median 

 coverts white ; greater coverts and quills with pale brownish buff edges, 

 broadest on the inner secondaries and greater coverts, the latter with rather 

 broad white ends; wing-lining dusky brown, with the axillaries and most 

 of the coverts white. Tail blackish brown with a large white pattern on 

 the three outer pairs of feathers and a small white spot at the end of the 

 inner web of the next ; shafts entirely black ; the white pattern increasing 

 in size towards the outer feather, where it extends over nearly half of the 

 inner web and the whole of the outer one, with the exception of a wedge- 

 shaped blackish patch near the end. Chin, abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white ; throat and centre of breast yellow, with the crop and front of the 

 chest shaded with rufous, and the sides of the body isabelline. " Iris 

 brown ; upper mandible dark brown ; lower mandible and legs flesh colour." 

 Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3'2, tail 2-7, tarsus 0'7. 3" , 1. 9. 

 75. Pinetown (T. L. Ayres). 



Female. Similar to the male but with the mantle more mottled, the 

 dark portion of the head slightly browner and the pale band on the crown 

 partially tinted with rufous. Total length 5.8 inches, wing 3'1, tail 2-8, 

 tarsus 0-7. ? . Transvaal (T. Ayres). 



The Common Golden-breasted Bunting ranges over southern 

 and tropical Africa generally, northward to the Congo and 

 Abyssinia. 



E. flaviventris has been met with in "West Africa as far north 

 as Leopoldsville on the Congo, where Bohndorff procured a 

 specimen which is in the British Museum. He also obtained 

 the species at Kibondo to the west of Lake Tanganyika, and it 

 is probably in this latter district that Captain Storms met with 

 it. Professor Barboza du Bocage observes : " This species is 

 plentiful from Benguela to the Cunene River, but apparently 

 keeps to the high plateau land of the interior. The native 

 names, according to Auchieta, are 'Kianja' at Biballa, ' Ben- 

 dabalamba ' at Cacouda, and ' Sapauzola ' in the Humbe 

 district. Andersson found the species fairly common in 

 northern Damaraland, frequenting well-wooded localities and 

 going to drink in the morning and evening. With respect to 



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