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he considered it to be a resident species. Mr. Witherby 

 during his expedition up the White Nile obtained a specimen 

 at Kawa, the only one he saw. 



He suggests that E. flavigastra, Rupp., can be separated 

 from E. flaviventris. From an examination of the specimens 

 in the British Museum, I have come to the opposite conclusion, 

 and I cannot imagine where he would draw the boundary line 

 between the rangfes and the characters of the two races. 



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Emberiza afllnis. 



"Emberiza affinis, Wiirt." Heugl. J. f. O. 1867, p. 297; Finsch and 



Hai-tl. Vog. 0. Afr. p. 460 (1870) Sennaar ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 



238 (1896) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1902, p. 295 Gambaga. 

 Fringillaria affinis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, pp. 270, 271 Gazelle B. 

 Fringillaria forbesi, Haiti. J. f. 0. 1882, p. 324 U2}23er White Nile; 



Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 37 Kuterma. 

 Emberiza forbesi, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 502 (1888) ; Harterfc, Nov. 



Zool. 1899, p. 414 Gambaga. 

 Fringillaria capensis (nee Linn.) Swaius B. W. Afr. i. p. 211, pi. 18 



(1837) Senegal. 



Adult male. Exactly like E. flaviventris in the colouring of the head, 

 neck and mantle ; but differing in the lower back being washed with the 

 same shade of rufous as the mantle ; and in the entire absence of white on 

 the wing-coverts, which, like the quills, are dark brown, with paler brown 

 edges ; under surface of body yellow with only the under tail-coverts white. 

 " Iris brown ; bill blackish, paler beneath ; legs greyish horn colour." 

 Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-75, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-7. <? , 26, 

 5. 83. Kuterma (Emin). 



Swainson's Golden-breasted Bunting inhabits Senegambia, 

 the White Nile and Sennaar. 



Swainson first recorded and figured this species from a 

 Senegambian example; but believing it to be a female of a 

 previously described S. African Bunting he called it Fri7i- 

 giUaria capensis. Specimens have also been collected in this 

 country at Casamanse and Bissao. Inland from the Gold Coast 

 Captain Gifford procured a specimen at Gambaga, July 20, 



