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Pringillaria striolata. 



Fringillaria striolata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823) Nubia; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. xii. p. 561 (1888) Asia; Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 64 

 Somali. 



Emberiza striolata, Sharpe and Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 197, pi. 213 

 (1871). 



Fringillaria saturatior, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. xi. p. 47 (1901) Lake Stefanie. 



Adult. Head and upper parts generally very like those of F. scptcm- 

 striata, but readily distinguished by the entire throat below the white chin 

 and the crop being black with broad hoary grey edges to the feathers, and 

 the breast, thighs and under tail-coverts sandy buff; under wing-coverts 

 rufous buff; quill brown, with very broad cinnamon inner margins, which 

 colour does not quite extend across the inner, webs. " Upper mandible 

 brown, lower one yellow ; legs yellow ; feet brownish yellow " (A. 0. Hume). 

 Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 28, tail 2-3, tarsus 0'6. Somali 

 (Hawker). 



Type of F. saturatior. Upper parts brown with pale brown edges and 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; wings and tail dark brown, with the edges 

 of the feathers cinnamon, broadest and brightest on the wing-coverts and 

 centre quills, and narrower on the primaries and inner tail-feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts and broad inner edges to the quills pale cinnamon. Sides of 

 head and the upper throat blackish, with the eyebrow, an incomplete streak 

 behind the eye and a better defined band on each side of the upper throat, 

 brownish buff; remainder of the throat and the crop dusky blackish, mottled 

 with ashy brown edges to the feathers ; under surface of the body, thighs 

 and under tail-coverts rufous-buff, inclining to pale cinnamon ; under tail- 

 coverts with faintly marked dark brown centres. Iris black ; bill with the, 

 upper mandible green and the lower one yellow. Total length 5-1 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-75, tail 2, tarsus 0-8. Lake Stefanie (Donaldson Smith.) 



The Striolated Rock-BuntiBg- ranges over North-east 

 Africa, between 4° and 20° N. lat., and eastward over southern 

 Asia from Palestine into India. 



The most southern range I ascribe to this species is Lake 

 Stefanie in Equatorial Africa, here Dr. Donaldson Smith pro- 

 cured the type of F. saturatior. This single bird is rather 

 darker than any of the other specimens of F. striolatus I have 

 seen, but in my opinion it is a young female of the present 

 species which has nearly completed its first moult. 



[May, 1902. 11 



