88 DENIZENS OF THE FOEEST 



call-note. Its nidification was first described by Major 

 Sparrow in the Journal of the South African Ornitho- 

 logists' Union for July, 1905, and subsequently by Austin 

 Roberts, Journal of the South African Ornithologists' 

 Union, June, 1906. The eggs are covered with blackish- 

 brown blotches and streaks. 



BUNTING. 



The Sub-family Emberizince is also a small group of 

 birds, but contains the handsome Golden-breasted Bunt- 

 ing (Emberiza flaviventris), which is fairly plentiful in 

 the eastern districts of the Cape. 



FIG. 71. Golden-breasted Bunting at nest. 



So far as our experience goes the nest is never placed 

 on the ground, but usually six to ten feet high in the fork 

 of a small tree never in thick bush or kloofs. The eggs, 



