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403. Fringilla Striaticeps ; Poiiospiza stria- 



ticeps, N. Sp., Hart. 



GENERAL colour above, dark reddish-brown, the centre of the 

 feathers being darkest ; head variegated with white streaks, 

 which, coalescing over the eye, form themselves into an 

 eyebrow ; chin and throat white, mottled on the former with 

 brown ; under parts ruddy-brown, the colour clearest on the 

 belly and vent. Length, 5" 9'" ; wing, 2" 9'" ; tail, 2*". 



Received from Mr. Atmore, Swellendam ; and found also in Damara- 

 land by Mr. Andersson. 



404. Fringilla Angolensis, Harti, Om. w. AS, 



p. 1 50 ; Linaria Atrogularis, Smith, Append, to Kept 

 of Expd., p. 49 ; L. Angolensis, Briss., Orn. App., p. 

 71 ; Frin. Angolensis, Gmel. ; Frin. Tobaca, Vieil. ; 

 Fringil. Uropygialis, Licht, Bp. Consp., Vol. 1. p. 520. 



ABOVE, grey-brown, the centre of the feathers dark-brown ; 

 rump sulphur-yellow ; chin and throat black ; breast, belly, 

 and vent, rusty- white ; wings brown, the tips of the quills 

 and the inner edges of inner vanes, towards bases, white ; the 

 outer edges golden-green ; tail slightly forked, dark-brown, 

 with the tips, and more or less of the inner vanes, white. 

 Length, 4J". 



Inhabits the country about and beyond Kurrichane. Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. Kafirland, iLrebs. Hartl., loc. cit. 



405. Fringilla Ncevia, GmeL ; Sys. Nat. 1, p. 1 1 ; 



White-cheeked Finch, Shaw, Vol. IX, Pt. 2, p. 496 ; 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. 3, 278, 44. 



HEAD and neck, pale cinereous ; upper parts of latter marked 

 with dusky streaks ; sides of head white, with a reddish 

 streak passing through the eye, which is bounded on the 

 under part with black, and joins another black streak arising 

 at the base of the under mandible ; back and wings, pale 

 rufous, with dusky streaks ; under parts of body, plain 

 cinereous ; tail dusky. Length, 9". 



" Native of Cape of Good Hope." Shaw, loc. cit. 



This species has not, that I can learn, been recognised by any subse- 

 quent author. It is uncertain what bird is meant. 



Genus PASSER, Brisson. 



Bill strong, sub- conical, and broad at the base, with the 

 culmen rounded, slightly arched, and the sides compressed to 



