OF NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS. 315 



with white lines : tail feathers narrow, black in the middle ; 

 the centre pair with transverse blackish lines : bill deep black : 

 legs pale. 



102. AiMOPHiLA rufescens. 



Above^ rufous brown, unspotted ; beneath, greyish 

 white : crown rufous, bordered by a black line : sides ot 

 the head and eye stripe grey : the chin and upper part 

 of the ears are each margined with a black line, {fiy- 

 63. d) 



Inhabits Mexico. Mus. Nost. 



Size of the last. Bill, gape f^ inch : wings 2fg ; tail, beyond, 

 Ifj,; base 3 ; tarsus nearly 1 ; hind toe and claw ^g. Upper 

 plumage without spots : tail and lesser quills entirely rufous ; 

 but not of so deep a tinge as that on the crown, which is bor- 

 dered by a line of deep black : over the eye is a broad stripe, 

 beginning at the nostrils, where it is white ; but it changes 

 beyond the eye into clear grey : upper mandible black, lower 

 pale : feet light : flanks drab brown. 



103. Fringillaria rufa. 



Head and chin grey, with three white and two black 

 stripes on each side : crown black, with an obscure paler 

 stripe down the middle : upper plumage and wing 

 covers rufous brown, varied with black ; under plumage 

 and quills rufous, unspotted, {fig. QS. a) 



Inhabits Africa .'' Mus. Nost. 



Total length 5^ inches; bill^gapel; wings 2fg ; tail, be- 

 yond, l|g; ditto, base 21 ; tarsus ^. 



104. Fringillaria vittata. 



Above, grey, striped with black ; beneath, cinereous 

 grey : sides of the head with two white and two black 

 stripes : wing covers rufous : quiUs and tail blackish ; 

 chin and under tail covers whitish, {fig. 63. c) 



Inhabits South Africa. Mus. Nost. 



Size of a sparrow. Total length 6 inches ; bill, gape^^g ; wings 

 Sfg ; tail, beyond, 1^ ; ditto, base 2fg ; tarsus fg. Bill very conic ; 

 the two mandibles nearly equal : middle of the crown with an 

 obsolete grey line; the black stripes being thickest on the 

 sides: under wing covers and edge of the shoulders white: 

 edge of the outermost tail feather dirty white : lesser wing 

 covers pure rufous ; greater, with their centre black : feet black- 

 ish, rather strong. 



