FRINGILLARIA IMPETUANI. 159 



Reid's Rock-Bunting inhabits Natal, Zululand and the 

 Transvaal. This species is the eastern representative of 

 F. capensis and is as nearly allied to that species as F. tahapisi 

 is to F. septemstriata. It is represented in the Bintish Museum 

 by four specimens from Natal, collected in July, October and 

 November by Colonel Savile Reid and Colonel B. A. Butler, 

 who found the species not uncommon in the Newcastle district. 

 From the Transvaal, there are two specimens obtained by Mr. 

 "W. Lucas at Rustenburg in June and July, and two by Mr. 

 T. Ayres at Potchefstroom, dated February and October. The 

 latter observer says that the species is by no means plentiful in 

 the Transvaal, where it frequents the rocky ranges. 



Pringillaria impetuani. (PI. 23, fig. 2.) 



Emberiza impetuani, Smith, Eep. S. Afr. Exped. App. p. 48 (1836) Little 



Namaqua. 

 Fringillaria impetuani, Sharps, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 563 (1881) Daniara, 



Cape Col. Transvaal; Shelley B. Afr. I. No. 245 (1896); Stark, 



Faun. S. Afr. B. iii., p. 190 (1900). 



Adult. General plumage sandy brown, fading into buff on the front half 

 of the sides of the head, throat, abdomen and under tail-coverts; upper 

 parts mottled with fairly broad blackish shaft-stripes ; wing-coverts with 

 broader dark centres and more rufous-shaded wide edges ; quills brown with 

 rather broad pale cinnamon edges on the secondaries, which decrease into 

 narrow buff edges towards the outermost primaries ; under surface of quills 

 brown, with rather broad inner margins and the under coverts rufous buff. 

 Tail dark brown with a variable amount of rufous buff edges to the feathers, 

 according to the season. Throat and front half of the sides of the head buff, 

 shading into sandy brown on the hinder half of the eyebrows, ear-coverts 

 and crop, and becoming paler again on the breast towards the under tail- 

 coverts. " Iris and legs brown ; bill light brown" (Bradshaw). Total length 

 4-6 and 5-0 inches, culmen 0-4 and 0-35, wing 2*9, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-75 and 

 0-7. <? , 2 , 15. 11. 66. Tjanjombo (Andersson). 



The Lark-like Rock Bunting ranges from Angola into Cape 

 Colony and the Transvaal. 



Hartlaub (Orn. W. Afr. p. 152) mentions this species as 



