188 FEINGILLID^ FEINGILLARIA 



Description. Adult male. Above, brown streaked with black, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts unstreaked brown ; least wing-coverts 

 chestnut-red ; middle coverts chestnut streaked with black ; greater 

 coverts black edged with chestnut ; primary coverts and quills 

 black, the primaries edged with whitish, the secondaries with chest- 

 nut ; tail-feathers black edged with grey, the outermost with dull 

 white externally ; crown grey-brown with a central streak of grey ; 

 a long and distinct eyebrow white ; below this a black streak 

 followed by a white streak and this by another black streak across 

 the cheek which joins the black eye-streak behind the ear-coverts ; 

 below white, tinged with grey on the lower throat, breast and sides ; 

 the flanks streaked with dusky ; thighs brown ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts yellowish ; under surface of quills dusky. 



Fringillaria capensis. 



Iris brown ; upper mandible dusky-brown, the lower paler ; legs 

 and feet brown. 



Length 6'00 ; wing 340 ; tail 2-50 ; tarsus 0-80 ; culmen 0-60. 



Adult female. Eesembles the male, but the white face-streaks 

 are less conspicuous. 



Young. Are duller in colour generally; the breast and flanks 

 are streaked with dusky. 



Distribution. Cape Colony : common nearly everywhere in 

 open stony localities, from the sea level up to 5,000 feet. The 

 higher part of Natal, but not on the coast ; the Orange Free State ; 

 West Griqualand ; the Southern Transvaal and Great Namaqua 

 Land. Not uncommon near Newcastle, Natal, in July and October 

 (Butler, Feilden and Eeid) : " on rocky ranges near Potchefstroom :j 

 (Ayres). 



Habits. The Cape Bunting is almost invariably met with in pairs 

 on broken rocky ground, and in Western Cape Colony is a com- 

 mon species from the sea level to about 5,000 feet in the mountains. 



