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extends down the sides of the upper throat ; hinder halt of neck, back 

 and scapulars blackish brown with paler brown edges. Wings blackish 

 brown, the coverts like the back but with narrower and paler edges ; 

 primary coverts and quills more narrowly edged ; under wing-coverts and 

 inner margins of quills cinnamon, which colour never reaches across the 

 web to the shaft, and is sometimes absent on the quills. Tail blackish 

 brown with obsolete pale edges, most evident on the outer pair of feathers. 

 Chin and upper throat black, slightly mottled with white, remainder of the 

 under parts pale cinnamon. " Iris dark hazel ; upper mandible horn-colour, 

 lower one yellow ; legs bright yellow." Total length 5'3 inches, culmen, 

 0-4, wing 3-2, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-7. S , 30. 11. 73. Transvaal T. E. Buckley). 



Adult female. Similar to the male ; but with the head and throat 

 browner and more dusky and the crown nearly evenly mottled with light 

 and dark brown. " Upper mandible dusky brown, lower one yellow ; tarsi 

 and feet pale yellowish." J , 15. 1. 85. Potchefstroom (T. Ayres). 



Nestling. Similar in plumage to the adults. 3 , 20. 1. 99. Socotra Is. 

 (Grant). 



The Southern Cinnamon-breasted Rock-Bunting inhabits 

 Africa, south of a line drawn from the mouth of the Gaboon 

 river to Aden, and is represented on the Island of Socotra 

 by F. insidaris, Grant and Forbes, which, although genei'allj 

 rather paler in colouring, is not a recognisable subspecies. 



F. tahajnsi is represented in the more northern portion of 

 Tropical Africa by its near ally, F. septemstriata, from which 

 it may be readily distinguished by the rufous colour, when 

 present on the primaries, not crossing the whole of the basal 

 half of their inner webs, and in not having a large uniform 

 patch of that colour showing on the quills when the wings are 

 closed. 



In Gaboon the species has been met with by Du Chaillu 

 at Cape Lopez and the Camma river ; along the Congo, by 

 Lucan and Petit at San Antonio, near the mouth of that great 

 stream, and a little further inland, by Bohndorff, at Manyango. 

 In Benguela, according to Anchieta, these Buntings are known 

 to the natives of Biballa as the " Kangua," and at Caconda 

 as the " Gungo." From German S.W. Africa I find it only 



