from Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 355 



F. media. — Mossel Bay, Paarl (G. E. Shelley) ; Deelfontein 

 (Seimund and Grant). 



F. reidi. — Natal to Transvaal. 



As to Potchefstroom specimens, it is very difficult to decide 

 whether they are F. media or F. reidi. 



The three eggs are of a pale greenish blue, plentifully 

 sprinkled with reddish brown and pale purplish grey, seldom 

 forming a small blotch. Axis 075 inch, diam. 0*6. 



[This Bunting is found all the year round, and is very 

 common, but does not go in flocks. Its food consists of 

 seeds and insects. The nest is built in the top of a clump 

 of coarse grass on the veldt or on a kopje ; it is never more 

 than a foot or a foot and a half from the ground. The eggs 

 are three or four in number.] 



104. Fringillaria impetuani. 



Fringillaria impetuani Sharpe, ed. Layard, pp. 489, 851 

 (1875-84) ; id. Cat. B. xii. p. 5G3 (1900) ; Stark, Faun. S. 

 Afr., Birds, i. p. 190 (1900) ; Shelley, B. Afr. iii. p. 159, 

 pi. xxiii. fig. 2 (1902). 



a. ad. Deelfontein, Jan. 10, 1901. Iris hazel. 



b. S ad. „ Jan. 25, 1901. 



c. <J ad. „ April 1901. 



d. S ad. „ Feb. 17, 1902. 

 e-i. S ? ad. „ March 2-13, 1902. 

 *,/.<?? ad. „ April 3, 4, 1902. 

 m. ad. „ April 25, 1902. 



n, o. <$ ? ad. „ Oct. 24, 1902. 



There seems to be very little variation in the colour of 

 this species at different seasons of the year, as I have already 

 remarked in the ' Catalogue/ The moult apparently takes 

 place in March, and the old birds may be distinguished from 

 the young by an indication of a dusky spot on the lower 

 throat. In the breeding-plumage the ear-coverts become 

 decidedly more rufescent. 



[The Little Brown Bunting is very common and is found 

 with us all the year ; it generally occurs in small parties of five 

 or six. The food consists of seeds and insects. The nest is 



