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413. Pringillaria Vittata, Swain. ; AD. in Menag, 



p. 315 ; Strcepkopje of Colonists, lit. Striped Head. 



ABOVE, grey, striped with black ; beneath, cinereous-grey ; 

 sides of the head with two white and two black stripes ; 

 wing-covers rufous ; quills and tail, blackish ; chin, and 

 under tail-covers, whitish. Length, 6" ; wing, 2" 9"' ; tail, 

 2" 6'". 



This little bird has very much the habits of the European " Hedge- 

 Sparrow." It frequents low bushes and rocks, creeping about the 

 former, and running up the latter, and sitting on their summits, open- 

 ing and shutting its wings, and uttering a little short, piping note. It 

 breeds about bushes and rocks, placing its nest in crevices or among 

 roots, or even on the ground. The eggs, three to five in number, are 

 of a dirty-white ground, profusely speckled with minute rufous and 

 light purple markings : axis, 10'" ; diam., 6'". 



It is universally distributed, and feeds on seeds and insects. 



414. Fringillaria (?) AMcana; Zonotrichia 



Africana, Smith, Append, to Rept. of Exped., p. 48. 



ABOVE, black-brown ; feathers broadly margined with rufous ; 

 chin white ; throat and breast, pa)e rufous, marked with 

 stripes of dark -brown ; middle of belly white ; quills dark- 

 brown ; outer edges towards base, dark-chesnut ; inner edges 

 pale rufous ; tail rounded, the two outermost feathers of each 

 side white, the second with a brown stripe in the course of 

 the shaft near the point, the intermediate ones dark-brown, 

 the two middle ones edged with light rufous. Length, 5". 



" Lives amongst the grass, both to the north and south of Kurri- 

 chane." Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



I have failed to identify this species, and place it here with a mark 

 of doubt. The genus in which Dr. Smith placed it is an American one. 



415. Fringillaria Tahapisi. (S.) 



Tahapisi, Smith, Append, to Rept. of Exped., p. 48. 



HEAD and throat black, the former with seven longitudinal 

 white stripes, one from base of mandible to centre of nape, 

 and three on each side ; body above light- brown, dashed with 

 dark-brown, beneath light cinnamon-brown ; tail dark- 

 brown, the outermost feather on each side tipped and edged 

 with pale rufous. Length, 5" 3'". 



Inhabits the country towards the sources of the Vaal Kiver. Dr. 

 A. Smith, loc. cit, 



