162 FRINGILLARIA SEPTEMSTRIATA 



In the British Museum there is a specimen without a label, 

 received from Mr. Hawker, wlio was the first to record the 

 species from Somaliland. 



Riippell found this Bunting frequenting the sandy wastes 

 in the neighbourhood of the Nile from Shendi to Ambukol 

 and procured the type at the latter place, which is spelt 

 Embukohl by Lichtenstein, who first described the species. 

 Heuglin records the species as occurring in the highlands 

 through which the Atbara flows, from Kordofan, and he 

 noticed it in Nubia as far north as 20° N. lat. Here he found 

 the birds frequenting the stony desert country interspersed 

 with bushes and grass. They were shy, and preferred hiding 

 amongst stones to taking wing; they had the moderate 

 Bunting-like note, not loud but lively. The African, or 

 typical race, appears to me to be generally slightly darker 

 than the Indian or Asiatic form, especially on the back and 

 rufous portion of the quills; the latter differing from the 

 former to about the same extent as F. insularis of Grant and 

 Forbes differs from F. tahapisi (Smith). 



Fringillaria septemstriata. 



Emberiza septemstriata, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 86, pi. 30, fig. 2 (1835) 

 Abyssinia. 



Fringillaria septemstriata, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 559 (1888) Niger, 

 Shoa, Abyssinia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Geuov. 1888, p. 269 Shoa; 

 Hartert, Kat. Vog. Mus. Senck. p. 51 (1891) Abyssinia; Kuschel, 

 J. f. 0. 1895, p. 342 egg ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 247 (1896) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1899, p. 414 Gamhaga; Grant, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 137 Abyssinia ; Alexander, Ibis, 1902, p. 296 Gold Coast. . 



Very similar to F. tahapisi in all its plumages, from which it is distin- 

 guishable only by the greater amount of cinnamon on the wings, this colour 

 entirely crossing the basal two thirds of the inner webs of all the quills, 

 excepting the innermost ones. This rufous colour forms a distinct uniform 

 patch on the upper surface of the closed wings, owing to the extent of the 

 rufous colour which crosses most of the outer webs. The tail sometimes 



