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species is G-ambaga, which is about 300 miles due north of 

 Cape Coast Castle. Here Captain "W. Giffard procured 

 specimens in January, July and August. Captain Boyd 

 Alexander has also met with the species at the same locality. 



In the German territory of Togoland four specimens have 

 been collected by Dr. Biittner and Mr. Ernst Baumann, so that 

 apparently this Bunting is not rare in the country to the east 

 of the Volta river, the waters of which, at present, form the 

 western boundary of its known range. 



Although the species has not yet been recorded from the 

 Niger district, we are informed by Di-. Reichenew, who first 

 described it from a Camaroons specimen, that it is common in 

 the lowlands of the latter country and much resembles, in song 

 and habits, our European Yellow-Hamraer. The species ranges 

 into Equatorial Africa, for Emin procured an immature female 

 at Tingasi, and according to Hartlaub he also met with it at 

 Njangabo to the west of the Victoria Nyanza. 



Emberiza major. 



Polymitra (Fringillaria) major, Cab. J. f. 0. 1880, p. 349, pi. 2, fig. 2 



Angola. 

 Emberiza major, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 502 (1888) ; Shelley, B. Afr. 



I. No. 239 (1896) ; id. Ibis, 1901, p. 586 Angoniland. 

 Fringillaria major, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, pp. 301, 305 Congo; Sousa, 



Jorn. Lisb. 1889, p. 49 Quindumbo ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 76 ; 



Emin, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 60 Ugogo. 

 Fringillaria orientalis, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 308 Mamboio. 

 Emberiza orientalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 502 (1888) Co7igo ; 



Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 284 Usambara; Shelley, Ibis, 1893, 



p. 27; 1894, pp. 23, 473 Zomba, Fort Lister; Eeichen. Yog. 



D. O. Afr. p. 195 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 240 (1896) ; id. 



Ibis, 1897, p. 527 Nyika, Fort Hill ; 1898, pp. 379, 558 Chiradzulu ; 



1899, p. 367 Ikawa ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 239 MasJiona. 

 Emberiza major orientalis. Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. p. 186 (1900). 

 Fringillaria cabanisi (nee Eeichen.) Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 47 



Cape Delgada. 



