226 POLIOSPIZA GULARIS. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



a. Crown with white edges to the feathers. 

 a^. Under parts uniform. 



a^. Upper throat more mottled with black . gularis, ad. 



b". Throat white, less mottled with black . canicapilla. 

 6^. Crop and flanks streaked with brown, 



c^. Dark crop-marks shghtly smaller . . . gularis, juv. 



d^. Dark crop-marks shghtly larger . . . reichardi. 



b. Crown with no white edges to the feathers . . tristriata. 



Poliospiza gularis. (PL 26, fig. i.) 



Linaria gularis, Smith, Eep. S. Afr. Exped. p. 49 (1836) Ca^e Col. 

 Poliospiza gularis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 343 (1888) CajJe Col. Natal, 



Transvaal; Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 341 egg ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 



No. 273 (1896) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1896, p. 246, 1900, p. 239 Mashona ; 



Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers, p. 109 (1899) egg ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. i. 



p. 165 (1900) ; Haagner, Ibis, 1891, p. 194 Transvaal. 

 "Pringilla humilis, Licbt." Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 511 S. Africa. 

 Poliospiza striaticeps, Hartl. in Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 203 (1867) S. Africa. 



Adult. Upper parts and sides of the head brown, with a complete broad 

 eyebrow and front of the forehead wbite, and the edges of the feathers of the 

 crown and back and sides of neck whitish ; mantle with rather obscurely 

 marked dark centres to the feathers ; median and greater wing-coverts with 

 rather broad whity-brown edges ; remainder of quills, like the tail-feathers, 

 have narrow buff edges ; inner lining of wing brown with narrow whitish inner 

 edges to the quills and larger coverts, the remainder of the coverts and the 

 axillaries being buffy brown like the chest ; chin and throat white mottled 

 with black below the chin ; crop and under surface of body brownish buff, 

 darkest on the chest and sides of body. " Iris dark hazel ; bill horn colour ; 

 legs dark brown " (T. E. Buckley). Total length 55 and 5-1 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-9 and 2-8, tail 2-3, tarsus 65. S , S , 14. 3. 84. Pinetown 

 (T. L. Ayres). 



Young. Differ in having some brown centres to the feathers of the chest 

 and flanks. 



The Cape Streaky-crowned Seed-eater ranges southward 

 from Great Namaqua- and Mashona-lands. 



Andersson met with this species sparingly in Great Nama- 



