164 FRINGILLAEIA TAHAPISI. 



breeding in December along the half dried water- courses near 

 Gondar, and describes tte nest as composed of grass and placed 

 on the ground behind a stone or bush : it contained two or 

 three eggs, white or pinkish, with brown freckles mostly on 

 the thicker end : he figures the egg (Orn. N. 0. Afr. pi. 48, 

 fig. 8). 



Fringillaria tahapisi. 



Emberiza tahapisi, Smith, Eep. S. Afr. Exped. App. p. 48 (1836) N. 

 Natal; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1892, p. 50, Bickoba ; id. Yog. D. O. Afr. 

 p. 194 (1894) Igonda ; Fleck, J. f. 0. 1894, p. 410 Bastardland ; 

 Neum. J. f. 0. 1900, p. 287 E. Afr. 



Fringillaria tahapisi, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 266 (1857) ; id. J. f. 0. 

 1860, p. 141 Gaboon; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 383 Transvaal; 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1886, p. 290 Transvaal; Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 

 47 Cape Delgado ; Sharps, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 558 (1888) Gaboon, 

 Cape Col. Kingwilliamstoivn, Tete, Socotra ; Tristram, Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 227 Ugogo ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. 1891, p. 25 Baguero, 

 Ussongo ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 259 Ukambani ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, 

 p. 23 Zomba ; id. B. Afr. I. No. 246 (1896) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, 

 p. 514 Zulu ; Shelley, t. c. p. 527 Karonga ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 

 1898, p. 399 Somali ; Shelley, Ibis, 1899, p. 367 Tanganyika 

 Plateau; Alexander, t. c. ■p. 564: Za7?ibesi ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. 

 i. p. 189 (1900) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 43 Albert Edxcard 

 Nyanza ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 137 S. Abyssinia; Marshall, t. c. 

 p. 240 Mashona; Shelley, Ibis, 1901, p. 587 Angoniland ; Grant 

 and Eeid, t. c. p. 626 S. Abyssinia. 



Fringillaria rufa, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837) descr. null. 



Polymitra capistrata. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 129 (1850) S. Afr. 



Emberiza capistrata, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 73 Kagcki. 



Fringillaria capistrata, Eeichen, J. f. O. 1887, p. 301 Manyango. 



Fringillaria iusularis. Grant and Forbes, Bull. Liverpool Mus. ii. p. 2 

 (1900) Socotra. 



Fringillaria septemstriata (nee Eiipp.) Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 259, Siik ; 

 EUiot, Field Columb. Mus. Orn. i. No. 2, p. 36 (1897) Somali; 

 Lort PhiUips, Ibis, 1898, p. 899 Somali. 



Adult male. Head and throat black, with seven white bands ; one 

 dividing the crown from eulmen to nape, and on each side, an eyebrow 

 from the nostril to above the ear-coverts, and a band from the gape enclos- 

 ing the cheeks and lower portion of the ear-coverts, while yet another 



